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4. A Second Front
With speculation of a second front, one woman is transferred to a woodwork shop to make gliders. Read by Fenella Woolgar.
Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences.
As their stories unfold we discover how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared.
Rumours and speculation about a second front gather pace.
Meanwhile Doris Scorer is transferred from the aircraft factory to the woodwork shop, where she starts making gliders.
Abridged by Doreen Estall.
Read by Fenella Woolgar.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard.
First broadcast on Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 in May 2011.
Last on
Fri 9 May 2025
03:30
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 Extra
Broadcasts
- Thu 5 May 2011 09:45Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 FM
- Fri 6 May 2011 00:30Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 LW
- Thu 8 May 2025 08:30Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 8 May 2025 13:30Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 8 May 2025 19:30Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 9 May 2025 03:30Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 4 Extra