Weekend Variety Wireless - Hour 4 - 11/11/18
Nov 11, 2018•46 min
Episode description
First up this hour, War Poems. WWI produced some compelling literature and poetry. Victoria University English Prof Harry Ricketts on Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen who died in the very last week of the war.Then, The WWI conscientious objector and dissident, Archibald Baxter who caught hell from his own countrymen on The Western Front. Journalist, historian and champion of the dissidents, Mark Scott, describes what happened to those who refused to fight for non-religious reasons in The Great War. Weekend Variety Wireless with Graeme Hill, 8pm - midnight Saturdays and Sundays, on RadioLIVE and streaming live to the Rova app on Android and iPhone.
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