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Voice - Letters From A Lost Generation. |
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Production Information : -
1999 BBC Radio Collection.
Director: - Clive Brill.
Producer: - Mark Bostridge.
Rupert Graves: - Roland Leighton. |
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Review / Synopsis. |
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If the War spares me,' wrote Vera Brittain to her brother Edward in 1916, 'it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four.' Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth.
This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between Vera, her brother, her fiance Roland Leighton and their two best friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, they give a unique perspective on the most horrifying conflict the world had ever seen.
They show the heartbreaking disillusionment of an idealistic public school generation, raised on ideas of patriotism and duty, as the reality of war emerged. Yet they also give a fascinating insight into the era as a whole: their generation's literary tastes and the place of women in society.
Read by Amanda Root, Jonathan Firth, Rupert Graves, James Wallace and Robert Portal, these deeply moving letters let us hear for ourselves the voices of Vera Brittain's lost generation.
©1999 BBC Worldwide. |
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