The Great War: The People's Story Arthur, Helen, Diana, Duff and Ted (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | 46 min | Documentary, History, War

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The Great War: The People's Story

Arthur, Helen, Diana, Duff and Ted (Season 1, Episode 4)

TV Episode | 46 min | Documentary, History, War

1918 sees meat rationing being introduced so that Hallie and her husband Eustace, employed by the Ministry of Food, have considerable success with their vegetarian fare. Helen Bentrich, sacked from the arsenal for her socialist viewpoint, ...See more1918 sees meat rationing being introduced so that Hallie and her husband Eustace, employed by the Ministry of Food, have considerable success with their vegetarian fare. Helen Bentrich, sacked from the arsenal for her socialist viewpoint, throws herself into the organization of the Women's Land Army. She will later become a social worker in the Middle East and the Labour leader of London County Council, surviving to age eighty. Alfred Duff Cooper's post at the Foreign Office has protected him from conscription but in 1918 he joins the Grenadier Guards as a lieutenant and is awarded the DSO for bravery. He laments the deaths of his university contemporaries to his glamorous sweetheart Diana Manners, to whom he will be married until his death in 1954. Arthur Roberts, a black shipyard worker from Glasgow, has witnessed horrific carnage which he records in his diaries. Although falsely accused of damaging a pair of boots and almost facing court martial he is not subject to racism and can even joke about looking like a white man after being caked in mortar dust. He will die in Liverpool in 1985, his diaries being posthumously discovered. Eighteen year old Ted Poole is not so lucky. With all his elder brothers killed he writes cheerful letters to his father but will die in action a month before the war's end. Come the Armistice Winston Churchill notes the jubilation of the masses taking to the streets to celebrate the end of a costly and wasteful conflict. Written by don @ minifie-1 See less

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Name	Known for
Giles Alderson Arthur Burke Arthur Burke See fewer	The Dare (2019)
Olivia Colman Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	The Favourite (2018)
Claire Foy Helen Bentwich Helen Bentwich See fewer	First Man (2018)
Gerard Kearns Ted Poole Ted Poole See fewer	Floodlights (2022)
Henry Lloyd-Hughes Duff Cooper Duff Cooper See fewer	The Thursday Murder Club (2025)
Rosalind March Self Self See fewer	Flawless (2007)
Verity Marshall Ms. Harrold Ms. Harrold See fewer	Me Before You (2016)
Tuppence Middleton Diana Manners Diana Manners See fewer	National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue (2024)
Harry Miller Thomas Poole Thomas Poole See fewer	Grushko (1994)
Adrian Scarborough Winston Churchill Winston Churchill See fewer	Vera Drake (2004)
Alison Steadman Hallie Miles Hallie Miles See fewer	Life Is Sweet (1990)
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett Arthur Roberts Arthur Roberts See fewer	Candyman (2021)