As the conflict begins, women share their wartime experiences. Virginia Nicholson's evocative . Read by Fenella Woolgar.
Virginia Nicholson's evocative 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.
The conflict begins, and 37-year old s Faviell learns to ister first-aid, and Lorna Bradey, serving as a nurse in , witnesses the horror of Dunkirk first hand.
Omnibus of five parts abridged by Doreen Estall,
Read by Fenella Woolgar.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.
*** 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 on BBC Radio 4.
