Tommies - Complete BBC Radio Collection - BBC Radio
Category: Radio Productions
Tags: Radio Productions, Documentary, Historical Fiction, Adults
A major BBC Radio 4 drama series following the lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War I, Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each of these 42 episodes of Tommies traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago., We follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army, as they experience life and death on the front line. Meanwhile, Dr Celestine de Tullio battles to save soldiers suffering from gas gangrene and trench fever and experiences the fighting firsthand when she enlists in the Serbian Army and commands a dangerous offensive., They are all cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years. Through their voices and a host of others we hear untold stories about the conflict in Gaza, Gallipoli, Salonika, Serbia, Mesopotamia, Russia, Macedonia, Italy, Turkmenistan and Tanzania, as well as on the Western F
