4 November 1914
Celestine returns from France to find that things are amiss, while her husband Robert gets embroiled in the realities of financing a war. Stars Indira Varma and Patrick Kennedy.
by Michael Chaplin.
Series created by Jonathan Ruffle.
Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of Tommies traces one real day at war and behind the battlefront, exactly 100 years ago.
And through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years.
Indira Varma, Pippa Nixon and Patrick Kennedy star in this story, as Dr Celestine de Tullio returns from France to find that things are amiss with army medicals, while her husband Robert gets embroiled in the realities of financing a war.
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: Jonquil Panting.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Celestine de Tullio | Pippa Nixon |
| Robert de Tullio | Patrick Kennedy |
| Commentator | Indira Varma |
| Gladys Oddy | Laura Molyneux |
| Lt Colonel Dobbie | Nicholas Farrell |
| Harry Bentley | Ben Crowe |
| Henry Montague | Michael Bertenshaw |
| Frank Bostridge | Will Howard |
| Julius Adler | Matthew Watson |
| Bennett | David Cann |
| Walter Oddy | Tony Pitts |
| Field | Damian Lynch |
| Producer | David Hunter |
| Producer | Jonquil Panting |
| Producer | Jonathan Ruffle |
| Director | Jonquil Panting |
| Writer | Michael Chaplin |
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