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Home fires : Series one. Home fires. Series 1 [dvd] - Australia : Roadshow Entertainment, 2015. - 2 DVD-video (273 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. 2 video discs (approximately 273 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. - Home fires ; 1 . - Home fires ; 1. .

Inspired by the book Jambusters by Julie Summers.

Creator and lead writer: Simon Block ; directors: Bruce Goodison, Robert Quinn. Creator and lead writer: Simon Block ; directors: Bruce Goodison, Robert Quinn.

Samantha Bond, Francesca Annis, Claire Calbraith, Ed Stoppard, Claire Rushbrook.

Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.

Classification: M.


DVD, PAL ; Region 4.


In English. [CC] English Captions (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired). [AD] English subtitles.

Standard No.: 9398700002426

Publisher. No.: C-123796-9 Roadshow Entertainment.

Subjects--Personal Names:
Summers, Julie--Film adaptations.
Summers, Julie--Film and video adaptations.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rural women--Social conditions--Great Britain--Drama.
Women in war--Great Britain--Drama.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Great Britain.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction television programs.
Historical television programs.

LC Class. No.: PN1992.77 / .H66 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 791.45/72