Episode 1
The conflict begins, and 37-year-old Frances Faviell learns to administer first aid, and Lorna Bradey, serving as a nurse in France, witnesses the horror of Dunkirk first hand.
Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences. As their stories unfold we discover how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared. Today, the conflict begins, and thirty-seven year old Frances Faviell learns to administer first-aid, and Lorna Bradey, serving as a nurse in France, witnesses the horror of Dunkirk first hand.
Virginia Nicholson's books include Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, which was broadcast as a Book of the Week.
Read by Fenella Woolgar
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
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- Mon 2 May 2011 09:45麻豆社 Radio 4 FM
- Tue 3 May 2011 00:30麻豆社 Radio 4
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