{"product_id":"book-gpgw","title":"World War One: The Cultural Front","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancine Stock explores how the Great War shaped culture and society between 1914 and 1918\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe First World War was the great military and political event of its time. But it was also an imaginative event: one that profoundly altered the ways in which men and women thought about the world, and about culture and its expressions. In this compelling five-series programme, journalist and presenter Francine Stock scrutinises the diverse responses of artists and entertainers to the bitter realities of war, and reveals how their new perspectives entered the public consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach series focuses on a specific year of the conflict, beginning with 1914, as the written word was mobilised; the music industry embraced both patriotism and escapism; and painters including Kandinsky created some of their most powerful work. Stock shows how the aftershocks of war sparked the rise of modernism and the avant-garde in 1915, and looks at how trauma was addressed in the works of Freud and the compositions of Debussy. Moving on to the following year, she demonstrates how the carnage at Verdun and the Somme inspired Dadaism, galvanised creators from Picasso to Apollinaire - and made the tank into an unlikely icon on the home front.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking at 1917, Stock tells the story of the Harlem Hellfighters and how jazz conquered France; finds out about the popular cross-dressing theatre troupes who were taking the Front Line by storm; and listens as the first meeting between poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen is celebrated in a landmark violin performance using instruments made in memory of the duo. She concludes by examining the war's final deadly year, as US troops arrive on the Western Front, Charlie Chaplin makes a film about a private with dreams of becoming a war hero; the Austro-Hungarian Empire falls; and Elgar, Stanley Spencer and Rebecca West anticipate the end of the hostilities and the soldiers' return.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProduction credits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented by Francine Stock\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Tom Alban, Mark Burman, Caitlin Smith, Mark Rickards, Clare Walker, Georgia Catt, Sarah Shebbeare, Elizabeth Duffy\u003cbr\u003eProduction Coordinator: Anne Smith\u003cbr\u003eEditors: John Goudie, Philip Sellars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders: Clive Hayward, Heather Craney, Sean Baker, Susan Jameson, Sam Rix, Sargon Yelda, Brian Protheroe, Nicola Ferguson, Nick Underwood, Lucy Doyle, Sean Murray, Ryan Whittle, Liam Fernandez, Cameron Percival and other members of the Radio Drama Company\u003cbr\u003eSinger: Eloise Irving\u003cbr\u003ePianist: Simon Townley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeries 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords for Battle\u003c\/i\u003e 8 March 2014\u003cbr\u003eWith Catriona Pennell, Samuel Hynes, Tim Kendall, Sophie De Schaepdrijver, Mark Derez, Jan Van Impe, Gerhard Hirschfeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArf a Mo, Kaiser: Popular Culture on All Fronts\u003c\/i\u003e 15 March 2014\u003cbr\u003eWith Eloise Irving, Simon Townley, John Mullan, Susan Scott, Rachel Moore, Gerhard Hirschfeld, Stefan Goebel, Hubertus Jahn, Anita O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKandinsky, Khaki and Kisses\u003c\/i\u003e 22 March 2014\u003cbr\u003eWith Jane Potter, David Boyd Haycock, Richard Cork, Stacy Gillis, Stefan Goebel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeries 2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlimpses of a Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e 18 April 2015\u003cbr\u003eWith Genevieve Bell, Pat Mills, Samuel Hynes, Guillaume de Syon, Richard Slocombe, Stewart Kelly, Bryony Dixon, Mark Wollaeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cubist War\u003c\/i\u003e 25 April 2015\u003cbr\u003eWith James Taylor, Nicholas Rankin, Susan Harrow, Santanu Das, Peter Stanley, Christian Liebl\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar on the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e 2 May 2015\u003cbr\u003eWith David Code, Anna Farthing, Edgar Jones, John Forrester, Dorothy Price, Matthew Hollis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeries 3\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBleeding France\u003c\/i\u003e 9 April 2016\u003cbr\u003eWith Jay Winter, Alice Kelly, Linda Robertson, Sylvie Leray-Burimi\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tank and the Home Fires\u003c\/i\u003e 16 April 2016\u003cbr\u003eWith Cathy Haill, Helen Brooks, Kimberley Reynolds, Diana Thompson, Vincent Thompson, Richard Slocombe, David Wiley, Alistair Fraser\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDada and Defiance\u003c\/i\u003e 23 April 2016\u003cbr\u003eWith Toby Thacker, Alan Dein, Jed Rasula, Jan Rueger, Emily Finer, Boris Dralyuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeries 4\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Kings Go to War\u003c\/i\u003e 12 August 2017\u003cbr\u003eWith Max Brooks, Reid Badger, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Noble Sissle Jr\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReality and Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e 19 August 2017\u003cbr\u003eWith Steve Burnett, Catherine Walker, Boris Dralyuk, Richard Cork, Sylvain Bellanger, Suzannah Biernoff, James Partridge, Sarah Crellin\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Intimate War\u003c\/i\u003e 26 August 2017\u003cbr\u003eWith Jason Crouthamel, Anke Vetter, Kevin Clarke, Jay Winters, Laraine Porter, Simon Rothon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeries 5\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1918: Chaplin Goes to War\u003c\/i\u003e 8 September 2018\u003cbr\u003eWith David Luben, Claggett Wilson Read, Lucie Dutton, Ailsa Grant Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1918: Vienna and the Fall of an Empire\u003c\/i\u003e 15 September 2018\u003cbr\u003eWith Michael Haas, Marcus Patka, Ivan Ristic, Nicolai Guteman\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e 22 September 2018\u003cbr\u003eWith Boris Dralyuk, Martin Sorrell, Toby Thacker, Jane Potter, David Haycock, Ann Danks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. 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