Home Front (BBC radio series)
| Genre | Drama |
|---|---|
| Running time | 12 minutes (omnibus episodes: 57 mins) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Syndicates | BBC Radio 4 Extra |
| Written by |
Sebastian Baczkiewicz Sarah Daniels Georgia Fitch Katie Hims Shaun McKenna Richard Monks Melissa Murray Mike Walker Claudine Toutongi |
| Directed by | Lucy Collingwood Jessica Dromgoole Allegra McIlroy |
| Edited by | Jessica Dromgoole |
| Produced by | Lucy Collingwood Allegra McIlroy |
| Recording studio | Studio 9D, The Mailbox, BBC Birmingham |
| Air dates | since 4 August 2014 |
| No. of series | 8 (as of 30 September 2016[update]) |
| No. of episodes | 319 (as of 30 September 2016[update]) 63 omnibus episodes |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Website | Programme website |
| Podcast | Home Front omnibus podcasts |
Home Front is a British radio drama, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 4 August 2014. Set exactly one hundred years before the date of broadcast, Home Front tells the story of World War I from the perspective of those managing life in wartime Britain. It is part of the BBC’s World War I centenary season and is planned to run until 11 November 2018, the centenary of the Armistice.
Each twelve-minute episode tells a fictional story set against a background of historical truth with at least one historical ‘fact of the day’ built into each episode. Each episode follows one character’s day. Together, they build into a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of British society. Episodes are broadcast Monday to Friday at 12.04 on BBC Radio 4, with an omnibus edition on Fridays at 21.02. There will be fifteen series in total, each season with a subtitle and a particular theme. Series average at eight weeks, with an eight-week gap between. All episodes (both individual and omnibus) are available for download as MP3s and will remain so indefinitely.
The first series received generally favourable press coverage.
For series one and two, Ciaran Bermingham and Sarah Morrison were production co-ordinators, the assistant producer was Leo McGann and the studio manager Martha Littlehailes.
In an episode broadcast on 29 April 2016 and referencing the Irish Easter 1916 rising, an Irish character talked about the terrible destruction of O'Connell Street in Dublin. Sackville Street was only renamed O'Connell Street in 1924 following the formation of the Irish Free State.
The theme music was composed by Matthew Strachan and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Series one of Home Front was first broadcast between 4 August and 3 October 2014. It is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the military machine and close enough to France to hear the fighting. The lead writer for series one was Katie Hims.
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