Private Peaceful on BBCR4, music by CBS

Subject: Private Peaceful on BBCR4, music by CBS
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 02:05 PM

Private Peaceful - Radio 4's Sat Play, 4 Feb 2012

"Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo dramatised by Simon Reade with music by Coope Boyes and Simpson.

"In WW1 over 300 British soldiers were executed by firing squad, some for desertion and cowardice. Many were traumatised by shell-shock. Some 90 years later they received posthumous pardons from the British Government, after a campaign helped by Michael Morpurgo's novel Private Peaceful .
"Recorded on location in Iddesleigh - the Devon village where the book is set with Michael Morpurgo playing the Vicar and Nicholas Lyndhurst Seargent Hanley."

Subject: RE: Private Peaceful on BBCR4, music by CBS
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 02:22 PM

A shameful episode in our history for which the prevailing lack of understanding of psychiatry does not atone.