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Radio 4,01 Dec 2017,58 mins

27 November - 1 December 1917

Home Front - Omnibus

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The third omnibus of Season 12, Giddy with Possibility, set in Tynemouth, in the week, in 1917, when Germany and the new Russian government began a cessation of hostilities. Cast Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf Sarah Illingworth ..... Naomi Frederick Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford Iris Reed ..... Charlie Hardwick Phyllis Marshall ..... Christine Absalom Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger Bill McCracken ..... Caolan McCarthy Cressida Marshall ..... Isabella Inchbald Ethel Manning ..... Sophie Scott Edie Chadwick ..... Kathryn Beaumont Eva Reynolds ..... Sophie Scott Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready Kenny Stokoe ..... Dean Logan Lester Reed ..... Trevor Fox Marion Wardle ..... Laura Elphinstone Matilda James ..... Hannah Wood Maud Drummond ..... Vineeta Rishi Molly Duckett ..... Victoria Bewick Peggy Tanney ..... Abbie Andrews Joyce Lyle ..... Tracy Whitwell Lad 1 ..... Edmund Wiseman Lad 2 ..... Philip Correia Stanley Hobbs ..... David Nellist Beatrice Marshall ..... Eviee Lavery Cristine de Groot ..... Ysabelle Cooper Gussie Marshall ..... Grace Doherty Peter Lumley ..... Bea White Written by Sarah Daniels Directed by Jessica Dromgoole Story-led by Shaun McKenna Sound: Martha Littlehailes Composer: Matthew Strachan Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews.

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