Testament of Youth

1979

Testament of Youth

8.6 | NR | en | Drama

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth---a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI--- chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing 'hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood.' Her plan is to attend Oxford.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP5 1918

Dec. 02,1979

The war is over and a shattered Vera returns to Oxford.

EP4 1917

Nov. 25,1979

Vera requests to be sent to a hospital at the French front.

EP3 1915

Nov. 18,1979

Vera is anxiously awaiting Roland's Christmas visit.

EP2 Buxton 1914

Nov. 11,1979

Vera decides to become a nurse and Roland is sent to the front.

EP1 Buxton 1913

Nov. 04,1979

In Part 1, war is a remote prospect as 18-year-old Vera dreams of escaping the stuffiness of her parents' house and attending Oxford.

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Released: 1979-11-04 | Released Producted By: BBC , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Cheryl Campbell , Emrys James , Jane Wenham

Director

Jonathan Powell

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Cast

Cheryl Campbell

as Vera Brittain

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Emrys James

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Jane Wenham

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Reviews

Ian Jones (icj-1) Vera Brittain is a bright young woman growing up in a middle class Derbyshire family in 1914. Her world seems to be a constant fight with her father to be allowed to go to University like her brother.Suddenly (this is doubly true) the Great War starts and throws the whole of society into turmoil. Vera goes to University but all her menfolk, brothers and friends join up to fight the Boche.By 1916 they are ALL dead including her dear brother and fiancé. Vera gives up University and signs up as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) aka a nurse working just behind the front lines in a Field Hospitals in France and Belgium. The suffering of the men - both British and German (Vera gets to be one of the few nurses who look after German casualties) is well represented.Vera Brittain was the mother of the British politician Shirley Williams. We owe her a lot for showing us the pain and heartache of that now almost vanished generation.This TV adaptation is a very good representation of the book of the same name. It was for me, as a young man when I first saw it - one unmissable show while it was on.Watch it - you may learn something of those terrible times