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Home Fires
- Director: Bruce Goodison; Robert Quinn
- Writer: Simon Block; Julie Summers
- Producer: Francis Hopkinson; Catherine Oldfield
CGiii Comment
True to form, Sunday night television delivers fiesty women, sensitivity and a great big dollop of nostalgia...for those old enough.
The lesbian story line comes in nearer to the end - it's handled rather well, dare we say with 'sensitivity'.
It's a touching tale...the father saying goodbye to his son - will have you in floods of tears.
Stock Sunday night TV.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The drama follows a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community where the shadow of World War II is casting a dark cloud over their lives. The isolated village couldn't feel further away from the impending bloodshed and battlefields and yet it is not immune from the effects of war. As the conflict takes hold, and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the women find themselves under increasing and extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Cast & Characters
Brian Fletcher as Little Stan Farrow;
Clare Calbraith as Steph Farrow;
Samantha Bond as Frances Barden;
Fenella Woolgar as Alison Scotlock;
Ruth Gemmell as Sarah Collingborne;
Claire Rushbrook as Pat Simms;
Mark Bazeley as Bob Simms;
Frances Grey as Erica Campbell;
Claire Price as Miriam Brindsley;
Will Attenborough as David Brindsley