The Somme

Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. Told through the letters and journals of soldiers who were there.

• Carl HindmarchDirector
• Mark HayhurstWriter
• Carl HindmarchWriter

• Tilda SwintonNarrator (voice)
• Ed StoppardCaptain Charlie May
• Paul PopplewellGreenhalgh
• Patrick KennedySergeant Richard H. Tawney
• Martin HancockAndrews
• Raymond WaringLance-Corporal Sidney McCoy
• Robert CambrinusFranz Cassel
• William BeckBundy