25-29 December 1917 - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

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The seventh omnibus of Season 12, Giddy with Possibility, set in Tynemouth, in the week, in 1917, when the first Ladies' international football match was played in Belfast.

Cast
Sylvia Graham ..... Joanna David
Lester Reed ..... Trevor Fox
Fraser Chadwick ..... Edmund Wiseman
Marion Wardle ..... Laura Elphinstone
Joyce Lyle ..... Tracy Whitwell
Alan Lowther ..... David Seddon
Cressida Marshall ..... Isabella Inchbald
Dilys Walker ..... Ellie Piercy
Edie Chadwick ..... Kathryn Beaumont
Esther O'Leary ..... Anna Bolton
Ethel Manning ..... Sophie Scott
Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Gladys Lynch ..... Elaine Claxton
Iris Reed ..... Charlie Hardwick
Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford
Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready
Judith Turner ..... Kate Okello
Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf
Duncan Chadwick ..... Mark Stobbart
Matilda James ..... Hannah Wood
Mhairi Marchant ..... Jane Slavin
Peggy Tanney ..... Abbie Andrews
Ronald ..... Bill Fellows
Sarah Illingworth ..... Naomi Frederick
Policeman ..... Shaun Prendergast
Waiter ..... Charlie Clements
Beatrice Marshall ..... Eviee Lavery
Gussie Marshall ..... Grace Doherty
Rosamund Marshall ..... Bea White

Written by Katie Hims
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole

Story led by Shaun McKenna
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Composer: Matthew Strachan
Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews.

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