Isobel’s War – Episode 1

Spring 1944.  Britian has been at work for nearly 5 years.  Allied troops have been advancing up the Italian Peninsula and there is a feeling, just a feeling, that a major attack on Germany will begin soon.  

In Oxford, a young woman has decided that she needs to do something for the war beyond rolling bandages for the local Women’s Voluntary Service Centre.  Her choice is the Boatwoman’s Training Scheme, a program that puts women in charge of canal boats to transport war materiel.  

Is this episode, Isobel, tells her family of her decision and begins her training as a boatwoman.  

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Cast:

• Helen McGregor as Isobel’s mother                 
• Neve Gascoyne as Young Isobel          
• Kate Saffin  as Older Isobel                         
• Alison Cook as Rosalind                   
• Beth Burns as a Waitress, and Freda, and Pat      
• Cate Field as Kit
• Erin Keenan as Iris 
• Gavin Gaughan as a Pathe News Announcer, and Mr. Curtis, and Mr. Carter

The show is written by Kate Saffin

Dramaturgy and Production by Joanna Mathews

Audio Design and Production by David Alan Grier and HWMS Audio Theatre

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