Tommies (radio drama)

Tommies

Silhouette of a soldier holding a rifle with bayonet fixed, superimposed over an outline map of the English Channel coastline.

Ident card used for the first episode of Tommies.
Genre Drama
Running time 45 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language(s) English
Home station BBC Radio 4
Syndicates BBC Radio 4 Extra
Starring Lee Ross
Pippa Nixon
Creator(s) Jonathan Ruffle
Writer(s) Michael Chaplin
Director(s) David Hunter
Producer(s) David Hunter
Jonquil Panting
Jonathan Ruffle
Narrated by Indira Varma
Air dates since 7 October 2014 (2014-10-07)
No. of series 3 (as of November 2015)
No. of episodes 15 (as of November 2015)
Audio format Stereo
Opening theme composed by Nina Perry [1]
Website Official website

Tommies is a British radio drama series, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It is part of the BBC's World War I centenary season and planned to be broadcast over four years,[2] the same length of time as the war itself. Based on actual unit war diaries, it tells the story of a one day in the conflict exactly 100 years ago to the day.

Cast and characters

References

  1. "Tommies - BBC Radio Drama". OpenAudio. Retrieved 1 June 2015. Nina Perry has composed the signature tune and incidental music for BBC Radio 4 Drama serial 'Tommies’ - following over, the space of four years, the lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War One
  2. Dowell, Ben (20 June 2012). "BBC Radio 4 plans first world war drama to be broadcast over four years". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 1 June 2015. The drama, which has the working title Tommies and is believed to be the UK's biggest ever one-off radio drama commission, will be scripted by a writing team led by Jonathan Ruffle and will tell the story of signals corps soldiers' experiences during the war in real time.

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