Homefront

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Am i the only one listening to Homefront?

I download the whole lot at the beginning of the week and binge listen whilst walking the dogs. Just listened to the extra programme they put out today and, unusually for me, i found it so touching and sad.

Anyone else?

Only five episodes left now (plus the special!).

What did everyone think of the developments with Marion and Edie?

@YouAndMeAreGoingToFallOut I thought "FINALLY!" I'm glad she finally came around and I'm very glad Edie was happy to receive it.

Really enjoyed today's episode. I've come to be really fond of Gabriel Graham.

Me too.

Three more and the Special on Saturday afternoon....

It's been a great series. I don't like the music, it's too mawky for me. I will miss it when it ends.

I'm also going to miss it. I think I'll restart the series over Christmas. That said, that means I'll have to get through possibly stabbing my eyes out listening to Kitty's horrible character in the beginning. Ugh.

I was thinking of restarting it too as DH hasn't listened and has expressed vague interest in it. I think it might be quite bewildering to listen again to early episodes as a lot of characters have had a change of actor at some point in the run!

Ah! How have I missed this thread restarting!!!

I'm going to be bereft in a few days. Even though I've totally forgotten most people's back story. And spend quite a lot of episodes not 100% sure what it's about.

I want follow up episodes!!! Once a month will do - I could be satisfied with a special from Canada though- as Alice settles into her new home with Roy (it BETTER happen!)

This series is going at breakneck speed which is a little unrealistic. I was so hopeful for Jessie and Adam but It looks like events from the past will keep them apart, they’ve always been such close friends.
I’ve lost track of the Dorothea storyline, I know when her first baby was born he showed her Indian heritage which was shameful and made Ralph doubt his parentage, but how is she connected to the Indian man she calls her brother? Why was it significant that he was introduced to Asha?

I think the Indian half brother is the product of another one of Dorothea's father's liaisons and he didn't pass as white: I don't know if that is the reason he wasn't brought up by her mother? I can't quite remember the details. I think it is significant that he was introduced to Asha as her uncle because that was Dorothea's mother publicly acknowledging the link.

I could be satisfied with a special from Canada though- as Alice settles into her new home with Roy (it BETTER happen!)

Oh I would LOVE this. I do hope we get a sense in Saturday's 1919 episode that there has been some kind of happy ending for Alice.

+1 to a happy ending for Alice. That poor woman deserves the world.

I also agree that they’re doing this all way too fast. I would say the show needs another month or so to work through all the proper endings. The one for Johnnie today just felt really weird and didn’t seem to focus on him at all. They used him as an expository tool to check in with all the characters.

Will the special long episode on Saturday focus on characters or on WWI itself or will it be historical and tell how the war’s ending actually happened?

Haven't read most of thread yet but .. yeah ... crying at the loss of this. It's been completely and utterly magnificent.

Well that's that. End of the war. Feels like there are still a lot of loose ends but I suppose that's life!

That was too sudden!!

Hope I can get the update play thing. (Not in UK)

So happy about Adeline Sergeant Morrow, glad Juliet's not getting her own way. Love this overview of the main characters - there's been quite a few since 1914.....
Homefront characters

On a side note, has anyone listened to 'Tommies' over the last 4 years - think that's been utterly brilliant and will be listening to them all again. I think there's a final one on Sunday afternoon and if they kill off Mickey Bliss I swear I'll hunt the scriptwriter down and do them an injury!

It's funny looking back at the list - there are certainly a lot of plots and characters I'd forgotten. Robert Lyle/O'Leary the Tyneside bigamist; Thornton Tulliver the con-artist who led Mickey Macknade into a life of crime; Edwin Lloyd the Glaswegian socialist in Devon...

I’ll have cleared the house by 2.30 and I’m sitting down to ‘listen to the wireless’.

I don’t know when I’ve over-invested quite so much in a series.

I know I’ve missed some chunks of the Tyneside series, (Kitty having Baby May up there andvleavingbher with Marion and the Bairns - no, that was Dieter’s code name)

I haven't listened to the special yet but will when my toddler is in bed later!

I think part of the reason I feel so sad is that I've had quite a few changes in my life since Home Front started: I've changed jobs, had a major bereavement, a difficult pregnancy, a year of maternity leave and a return to work. Home Front has been a companion for so much of this time. I will miss it massively.

Well that was satisfying. The wrap up episode today was good.

One thing that Jonathan Ruffle, one of the writers of Tommies, said was that a lot happens in four years, people die and move on. In my own life a lot has happened and even politically a lot has changed.

At the beginning of the series Obama was still president and an EU referendum was a twinkle in David Cameron's eye.

The ‘Under Milk Wood’ approach worked I think.

Anachronisms like Kitty saying ‘Tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday’ jarred a bit, and I’m not a pedant for such things ( although married to one...)

For those of you who don’t/didn’t like Isabel. I think her life is not going to be any bed of roses.

Kitty’s bed is made too. I wonder if Victor will be /was one of those poor shellshocked schoolmasters of the interwar years and beyond whose professional lives were made hell by unfeeling schoolboys?

I have to confess I had a bit of a cry at the end

And me.

I thought it did a good job of wrapping things up really. Happy endings for some and sad ones for others.

I was a bit surprised about the state of Captain Summer. Obviously he'd been very traumatised by his war experiences and had been prone to crying etc, but he seemed to have suffered a very dramatic decline. I think you're right that Isabel is going to have a challenging life.

Kitty, I hope, will make a good go of things in her rather unorthodox situation. Although I realised that Peter and Freddie and Isaac (as well as all the other little boys in the series like Mathieu and Ray and Sebastian and Mervyn Jr) will be just the right age to be sent off to fight in WW2, and some of them probably won't come back.

@YouAndMeAreGoingToFallOut oh now you’ve got me thinking... would the BBC do a WWII show in a similar way? I wonder...