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School Radio,18 Mar 2014,15 mins

Private Peaceful – Episode 10

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

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Tommo Peaceful and the rest of the company are posted to the trenches in Ypres. Tommo describes a two-day bombardment, at the end of which the company are first attacked and then mount a counter-attack. When Tommo gets back to his trench he discovers Charlie has not returned and as time passes he becomes increasingly fearful that his brother has died.

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