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Drama: War & Disaster (7 programmes)

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  1. Afternoon Reading The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 3

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    Available since Thursday from Radio 4 with 5 days left.

    3/3. It is 1918 and Edie is based at a military hospital on the cliffs above Treport.

  2. Afternoon Reading The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 2

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    2/3. Edie is moved to Etretat, where she must supervise members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment

  3. Memorials to the Missing

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    Available since Wednesday from Radio 7 with 4 days left.

    During the First World War, an internal battle is fought for decent burials and graves.

  4. Afternoon Reading The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 1

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    Available since Tuesday from Radio 4 with 3 days left.

    1/3. It is 1915 and Edie is based at Casualty Clearing Station Number 3 near Ypres.

  5. Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener

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    Available since Sunday from Radio 7 with 22 hours left.

    An Aunt's grief for a nephew killed by a splinter shell on the Somme.

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