Home Front: Series 4
The Powerful BBC Radio 4 First World War Drama
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-78529-294-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is the fourth series of BBC Radio 4's major drama serial tracking the fortunes of a group of characters on the home front. Each episode was first broadcast exactly one hundred years after the events it portrays, through which the characters struggle to maintain normality while Britain is involved in the First World War. Duration: 12 hours approx.
Reviews / Votes
"...looks like being an excellent alternative portrait of the Great War." -- Miranda Sawyer The GuardianMore details
Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
Audio CD
Dimensions
Height: 141 mm
Width: 138 mm
Duration
Dauer: 720 min
ISBN-13
978-1-78529-294-1 (9781785292941)
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Sebastian Baczkiewicz is an English writer. Author of a number of episodes of Holby City, he has written a range of plays for BBC Radio including adaptations of Les Miserables and The Count of Monte Cristo and six series of Pilgrim, starring Paul Hilton as William Palmer, the immortal title character. His stage plays include The Lives of the Saints, Hello Paris, The Man Who Shot the Tiger and Dancing under the Bridge. In 2004, he wrote half of a six-part series for BBC Radio 4 using characters from Arthurian legend. In 2012, Pilgrim was nominated for the Prix Italia and awarded silver at the Prix Europa. Sarah Daniels' playwriting career took off after she was able to spend a year as the writer-in-residence of Sheffield University's English department. Her plays have appeared at other venues including the National Theatre, the Battersea Arts Centre, the Crucible, Sheffield and Chicken Shed. She has also written episodes of the soap-operas Grange Hill, EastEnders and Holby City. Shaun McKenna is an English dramatist, lyricist and screenwriter. [source: Wikipedia]