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Airdate: The Crimson Field

BBC First premieres a 6 part series which could be a British equivalent of ANZAC Girls.

TheCrimsonField_02Tonight BBC First premieres UK drama series The Crimson Field, that follows the lives of medics and the patients at a field hospital in France during the WWI.

This is a 6 part series which could be a British equivalent of ANZAC Girls (or vice versa, given this one premiered first).

Oona Chaplin stars in a compelling and emotional new drama presenting one of the Great War’s untold stories. In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and female volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.

The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front, but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions and a new way of thinking. When Kitty Trevelyan, Rosalie Berwick and Flora Marshall arrive as the hospital’s first volunteer nurses they struggle to be accepted by the established medical team. The girls are flung headlong into a world for which nothing and nobody could have prepared them.

Kitty is escaping a traumatic past. For Rosalie, having failed to become a wife or mother this new opportunity means everything and Flora may look too young for the job but she makes up for it with enthusiasm. However, it’s a new nurse Joan Livesey, disarming and spirited, who appears to be concealing the deepest darkest secret. Above any enmities or rivalries, they share a bond. No-one else, not even closest family will ever comprehend this experience; the horror, the danger, the adrenalin, the joys and most of all the death-defying intoxication of simply being alive in the face of mortal danger.

8:30 pm Tuesday October 7 on BBC First.

3 Responses

  1. I think ANZAC girls was a take off from this not the other way round,the Brits made a far better show which I,m afraid given Oz TV is not that hard

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