Private Peaceful
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Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo dramatised by Simon Reade with music by Coope Boyes and Simpson.
Saturday 4th Feb, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4
In the First World War over 300 British and Commonwealth soldiers were executed by firing squad, some for desertion and cowardice. Some for simply sleeping at their posts. Many of these men were traumatised by shell-shock. Not until some 90 years later did they receive posthumous pardons from the British Government, after a campaign helped in part by the publication of Michael Morpurgo’s novel Private Peaceful . The radio dramatisation will bring this story of injustice to an even wider audience.
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