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Radio 4,10 mins

A widow describes the moment music hall star Vesta Tilley recruited her young husband Percy Morter as a soldier in 1914.

Woman's Hour

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Archive with Kitty from World War One At Home, a BBC and Imperial War Museums partnership. Vesta Tilley poster courtesy of Imperial War Museums.

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