Home Front - Omnibus

The Battle of Neuve Chapelle drew to a close while the men at Marshalls are spoiling for a fight. Written by Richard Monks Story-led by Shaun McKenna Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

A hundred years ago this week, Germany declared a submarine blockage of Great Britain, and - for reasons of their own - our characters begin to feel hemmed in. Written by Richard Monks Story-led by Shaun McKenna Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

Lunatic asylums were being commandeered by the government for use as military hospitals and Robert's careful equilibrium is shaken. Written by Melissa Murray Story-led by Shaun McKenna Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

The country may be at war, and the factories at peak production, but there's time for romance in industrial Tynemouth. Written by Melissa Murray Story-led by Shaun McKenna Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

The Mayor of Tynemouth honours the first local soldier to be awarded a V.C and Edie shares the town's excitement. Written by Shaun McKenna Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood Sound: Martha Littlehailes Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

Epic drama series set in Great War Britain exactly a hundred years before it was first broadcast, in this first omnibus edition of Season 3 the focus shifts to industrial Tynemouth, experiencing a quite different war from that felt in Folkestone. Written by Shaun McKenna Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. In the final omnibus edition of Season 2, Folkestone mourns one of its missing and the Grahams await a special delivery... Written by Katie Hims Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

Folkestone is uneasy about the move from 1914, and all its hope and fear, into 1915 with all its hope and fear. Written by: Katie Hims Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

This week, the Grahams host a family Christmas and Folkestone's yuletide festivities don't go entirely to plan. Story-led by: Katie Hims Written by: Shaun McKenna Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

As Christmas approaches, a spirit of generosity and recklessness fills the air, as all Folkestone is encouraged to give themselves to the war. Written by: Shaun McKenna Story led by: Katie Hims Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

This week, newcomers spell trouble for St Jude's and the police are unprepared for a crime wave... Story-led by: Katie Hims Written by: Sarah Daniels Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. In the first omnibus edition of Season 2, everyone is looking to do their bit for the war effort. With Deborah Findlay, Rachel Shelley, Katie Angelou. Written by: Sarah Daniels Story-led by: Katie Hims Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

Last omnibus of Season 1 of Home Front which is set in Great War Britain. The end of the beginning, perhaps, but a long long way from the end. Written by Katie Hims Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

Well-known suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst visits Folkestone and on the Leas, an amicable alliance is reached. Written by: Katie Hims and Sean Moffat Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

Folkestone honours its dead, and our characters' worlds all seem up-ended. Written by Sarah Daniels Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

Folkestone holds its annual regatta and Dieter's safety is threatened... Written by: Sarah Daniels Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

A hundred years ago this week, the country entered its second month at war, and the White Feather Movement began in earnest. Written by Shaun McKenna Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

With the first war-wounded arriving home through Folkestone, the locals attempt to boost morale with a fundraising event. Written by: Shaun McKenna Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

The week that Folkestone welcomed the first wave of Belgian refugees, fleeing the war. Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

As Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary, Folkestone tries to rally flagging tourism whilst waving local troops off to the front. Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Music by: Matthew Strachan Sound: Martha Littlehailes Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Editor: Jessica Dromgoole Home Front is a ground-breaking Radio Four radio drama - its biggest ever - set in Britain during 1914-18, playing a central role in the BBC's comprehensive offering to mark the centenaries of the First World War. An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, and follows one character's day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of British society, and a playful treasure hunt, with historical truths hidden in each story. Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the military machine, an