Home Front (BBC radio series)

[2] Based on historical events 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, with its final episode broadcast on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice.

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.

The theme music was composed by Matthew Strachan and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

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.

In series three the action moves to Tynemouth and the focus shifted to war industry in the factories and shipyards of North East England.

[6] In series five the action remains in Folkestone and focuses on the church and a growing widespread belief in spiritualism.

In series six the action moves to nearby Sandgate in Kent and the Bevan Hospital and focuses on nursing and casualties, both physical and emotional.

This broadcast marked the centenary of Britain's first Gotha Air Raid, which devastated Folkestone on this day in 1917.

Its themes are relationships - within families, lovers, parents and children - and the strains and changes placed on them by the war.

It opens with the launch of the WI (the Women's Institute), conscientious objectors, and pressure to farm all available land ahead to pre-empt the loss of European supply chains.