Series 11-15 from the major BBC Radio 4 theatre charting lifestyle on the home front during the First World War – plus special extended episode House Entrance: A Fragile Serenity

First heard about radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each episode of House Front is set exactly one hundred years prior to the broadcast time, and each follows a single character’s day. Jointly they create a mosaic of encounter from a broad cross-section of society, mixing historical reality with enthralling fiction to explore how about House Front: The Complete BBC Radio Collection Volume 3 regular people coped with lifestyle in wartime Britain.

Back Folkestone, the residents are dealing with the after-effects of the devastating air flow raid. Howard Argent is kept busy in the Bevan, while Ulysses Pilchard experiments with electro-shock therapy. In the meantime, women’s suffrage, prostitution and unmarried mothers are popular topics, and Kitty Lumley experiences the razor-sharp end of intolerance.

In Tyneside, ripples through the 1917 Bolshevik Trend lead to a growth in union activity, and the factory faces the threat of strike action through the munitionettes.

And in Devon, females, children and prisoners of war are being put to work on the land. With Britain within the brink of hunger, summer time 1918’s harvest is essential – but conscientious objectors, unwilling or unable to help, arouse fury.

As the fantastic War goes towards its end, can the wounded communities back home find some kind of serenity, however fragile?

Tackling themes including trauma and madness, industrial unrest, morality and sexuality, surrogate labour and the outbreak of peace are a few of radio’s foremost dramatists including Katie Hims, Shaun McKenna and Sarah Daniels. Among the extensive cast are Helen Schlesinger, Kathryn Beaumont, Roy Hudd and Billy Kennedy, with visitor performances from Geoffrey Palmer and Mark Heap. Also included is certainly Home Front side: A Delicate Peace, a special 75-minute event which flashes ahead to explore the lives from the characters on 10 November 1919.