Episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20110502 | 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. 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. The conflict begins, and 37-year-old Frances Faviell learns to administer first aid.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. |
| 01 | 20110502 | 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. 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. The conflict begins, and 37-year-old Frances Faviell learns to administer first aid.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. |
| 02 | 20110503 | Today, a ship is hit by a torpedo, and Mary Cornish's terrifying account of the hours and days that followed is recalled. |
| 03 | 20110504 | Today, women enter the workplace in ever increasing numbers. |
| 04 | 20110505 | Today, rumours and speculation about a second front gather pace, and Doris Scorer is transferred from the aircraft factory to the woodwork shop, where she starts making gliders. |
| 05 LAST | 20110506 | Today, as the celebratory atmosphere of VE day fades, many women are left wondering what the future holds. |