WW1 At Home 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer

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WW1 At Home 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer

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Oct 2, 2014

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Kate Adie reports on the Nottinghamshire munitions factory disaster. Also - the ambulance trains of Lowth & forces sweetheart, Gertie Gitana, who became a wartime music hall star.

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Oct 2, 2014

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The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.

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WW1 At Home 1 - Spies, Bravery & Acme Whistles: Three WW1 home front stories: how German spies were executed at the Tower of London, &... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 2 - Zeppelin Raids; Airship Patrols; Scouts on Standby: How a Scarborough home was immortalised in WW1 propaganda, defending the Irish coast... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 7 - The Hartlepool Bombardment & the Glasgow Rent Protests: The first attack on British soil for centuries, the Govan woman who battled for a fair... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 4 - Nursing Heroines & Lost Treasure: Kate Adie joins in a tribute to Elsie Knocker & Mairi Chisholm, famous nursing of the... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 6 - Women's Football, Anti-German Riots & the Soldier's Song: The Newcastle women's football champions who were unbeaten during the war, the Hull of... by World War One
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Minds at War - The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science: Professor David Edgerton reflects on a WW1 clarion-call from the British scientific... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 5 - Brighton Pavilion: a Hospital for Indian Troops: Over a million Indian soldiers fought alongside the British Army during WW1, and were... by World War One
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Month of Madness - Vienna: Christopher Clark continues to unpick the complex sequence of events leading to WW1. by World War One
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WW1 At Home 12 - The Football Icon and The War Poet: The football coach and Derby County football icon stranded in Berlin during World War... by World War One
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Month of Madness - Sarajevo: Prof Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to the First... by World War One
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Nationalism The War That Changed the World: An epic exploration of the legacy of World War One begins with this panel and audience... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 8 - Conscientious Objectors: The 'Winchester Whisperer' – the secret newspaper produced by the Conscientious of... by World War One
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Music Matters - The Legacy of WW1 in Music: How did composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alban Berg and Maurice Ravel react... by World War One
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Sound of Cinema - The First World War: Matthew Sweet looks at music for films set against the background of WW1, including La... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 9 - Wartime Drunkeness & a Belgian Refugee's Tale: The wartime experiment that aimed to tackle drunkenness in Carlisle, the grandson of a... by World War One
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Month of Madness - Berlin: Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events during the 'July Crisis' of 1914. by World War One
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Minds at War - Paths of Glory: CRW Nevinson's painting Paths of Glory is a distant cry from the rallying recruitment... by World War One
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Free Thinking - Oh What A Lovely Savas: 'Oh what a lovely Savas' begins Rana Mitter in this edition of Free Thinking, using... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer

WW1 At Home 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer

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Titles in the series (75)

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