A time when war overshadowed everything but hope
A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing "hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood." Her plan is to attend Oxford.
November 4, 1979
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BBC
28 people
Cheryl Campbell
Vera Brittain
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Emrys James
Mr. Brittain
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Jane Wenham
Mrs Brittain
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Peter Woodward
Roland Leighton
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Rosalie Crutchley
Miss Penrose
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Rupert Frazer
Edward Brittain
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Michael Troughton
Victor Richardson
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June Tobin
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Geoffrey Burridge
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Jane Booker
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Tricia George
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Hazel Douglas
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