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Writing the Century - Omnibus Episodes

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  1. The Hanleys

    By Lizzie Nunnery, from the letters of writers James and Timmie Hanley to their son Liam.

  2. The Experience of Love

    Christopher Green explores the recent history of Britain's gay and lesbian community.

  3. The Secret

    Muriel Howard's memoir of her Somerset childhood and keeping secrets.

  4. View From the Windows

    Drama based on the real-life diaries of artist and goose-breeder Monica Rawlins.

  5. Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary

    By Tanika Gupta. True story of Dinesh Gupta and his resistance to British colonial rule.

  6. The Journal of a Joskin, Part 2

    The 20th century as seen through the diaries of farm labourer and writer Fred Kitchen.

  7. My Greenham

    Ginette's life changes when she visits Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1982.

  8. Passages From Empire

    Two real-life globetrotting nurses, Gwladys Hughes and Ina Crafer, swap adventure stories.

  9. 08/02/2014

    Based on the true story of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered in 2006

  10. Takes Two to Tandem

    Using Frank Ayliffe's 1930s diaries, a glance at the life of an aspirational milliner.

  11. Vera 'Jack' Holme

    The life and loves of Vera 'Jack' Holme - actress, suffragette and relief worker.

  12. The Journal of a Joskin, Part 1

    Exploring the 20th century through real people, like Yorkshire farm labourer Fred Kitchen.

  13. Trinidad

    Audrey has a few words to say about Amy's attitude to her sister Muriel.

  14. The Secret Diary of Agnes Keith

    Dramatisation of Agnes Keith's diaries of her experience in a Japanese PoW camp.

  15. Tiger Wings

    1948: Joan Allen makes a daring solo flight back to her old haunts in Singapore.

  16. The Camel Hospital

    Sara Wilson was a V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse posted to Egypt in January 1918.

  17. The Iron Curtain

    Nell Leyshon's drama inspired by the letters and diaries of English teacher Paula Kirby.