The Cultural Front - Ep2 : Popular Culture

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The Cultural Front - Ep2 : Popular Culture

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28 minutes

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Mar 15, 2014

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For Radio 4, Francine Stock explores the music and images of popular culture in Britain, France, Russia and Germany, as fiery patriotism flares and fades in the first weeks and months of war.

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Mar 15, 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 8 - Conscientious Objectors: The 'Winchester Whisperer' – the secret newspaper produced by the Conscientious of... by World War One
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The Cultural Front - Ep2 : Popular Culture: For Radio 4, Francine Stock explores the music and images of popular culture in Russia... by World War One
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Woman's Hour: Changing Woman's Lives: From BBC Radio 4: How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women.co.uk/ww1. by World War One
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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 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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At Home 3 - The Spy on the Forth; Lizzie the Elephant; a Gardener Goes to War: How a German spy raised suspicions in Edinburgh; letters home show how a gardener from... 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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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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The Cultural Front - Ep1 : Words for Battle: Francine Stock begins her exploration of the culture of the Great War in 1914 with the... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 10 - Medical Breakthroughs & the 'Chocolate Soldier': Medical innovation from a wartime surgeon, a soldier's satirical spin on World War and... by World War One
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WW1 At Home 11 - The 'White Feather' Campaign & a Popular WW1 French Tipple: The birth of the 'White Feather' campaign in Folkestone, the pill boxes built to repel... 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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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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Woman's Hour - Women and the War - A signaller's story: In 1918, Annie May Martin was a telegraphist working in France. Her role with the Army... 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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Month of Madness - The French in St Petersburg: Christopher Clark continues to unpick the complex sequence of events during the 1914... 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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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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Month of Madness - London: Professor Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to WW1. by World War One
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Minds at War - Thoughts for the Times on War and Death: The declaration of war in 1914 was initially met with jubilation by the people of the... by World War One
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Free Thinking - The Thirty-Nine Steps: John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared in Blackwoods Magazine in August on... by World War One
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The Cultural Front - Ep2 : Popular Culture

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