• Susan Wokoma explores The Home Front

  • Jan 10 2025
  • Length: 33 mins
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Susan Wokoma explores The Home Front

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  • How did British society react to the sudden increase of women in the workforce during the First World War? Or the thousands of colonial volunteers brought over to fight Nazism?

    Susan Wokoma (Chewing Gum, Cheaters) is given a personal guided tour by IWM curator Geoff Spender, as the actor discovers the artists and photographers behind those stories -  encountering censored images of wartime Britain in the process.

    They are joined by Dr Diya Gupta,  lecturer in public history at City University of London, as our tour takes us via India and the West Indies, in search of the beginnings of multiculturalism as we know it today.

    Objects Discussed:

    Anna Airy, A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London, 1918

    Olive Edis, Women’s Services in France, 1919 photographs

    MOI Censored Photographs

    MOI Colour Photographs

    John Page, Paul Rotha Productions, West Indies Calling, 1943

    Cecil Beaton, Official war photographs of Asia and Africa, 1942–1944

    Narrator:  James Taylor. Producer: Matt Hill at Rethink Audio, with support from Eleanor Head, Daniel BenChorin, and the IWM Institute team at Imperial War Museums
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