Airing on PBS – June 21, 2015 at 10 PM
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The Crimson Field (previously known as The Ark)
Sarah Phelps’ gripping drama tells the story of World War One’s front line medics – their hopes, fears, triumphs and tragedies. The tented field hospital in which they work is a frontier; between the battlefield and home front, but also between the old rules, hierarchies and a new way of thinking.
Oona Chaplin (The Hour, Quantum Of Solace), Hermione Norris (Spooks, Cold Feet), Suranne Jones (Scott And Bailey, The Secret Of Crickley Hall), Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey, Scott And Bailey), Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave, An Angel At My Table) and Marianne Oldham (WPC 56) star as the dedicated team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers working together to help the sick and injured.
Together they embody an attitude of endurance, supreme courage and hope. Above any enmities or rivalries, they will all come to share a common bond as they experience the horror, the danger, the adrenalin, the joys and, most of all, the death-defying intoxication of simply being alive in the face of mortal danger.
SERIES 1
- The Crimson Field axed by BBC, ‘gutted’ writer Sarah Phelps confirms – The Independent
- Don’t forget the hospital orderlies of World War I, on or off the screen – The Conversation
- The Crimson Field series two: what’s going to happen next? – Radio Times
- True stories from WWI: The Crimson Field and flirting – British Red Cross Society
- The Crimson Field: Six burning questions we all want answers to now season one is over – Metro
- True stories from WWI: The Crimson Field and playing by the rules – British Red Cross Society
- True stories from WWI: The Crimson Field and letters home – British Red Cross Society
- The Crimson Field’s Karl Davies on the return of Corporal Lawrence Prentiss – Radio Times
- On Location: The Crimson Field – The National Trust
- Karl Davies talks The Crimson Field: ‘War makes a lot of money’ – DigitalSpy
- The Crimson Field’s Richard Rankin on Thomas and Kitty’s romance and hopes for a second series – Radio Times
- How Agatha Christie’s agonies as a war nurse helped inspire Poirot: Real story behind The Crimson Field is even more remarkable than TV drama gripping millions – Daily Mail
- True stories from WWI: The Crimson Field and our pyjamas – British Red Cross Society
- ‘The Crimson Field’ actresses discover links to ancestors in The Great War – The Genealogist
- Suranne Jones on WWI drama: ‘I challenge anyone not to be moved’ – Daily Express
- Oona Chaplin on sex scenes, pet snakes and women’s liberation – Radio Times
- True stories from WWI: The Crimson Field and hospital food – British Red Cross Society
- The Crimson Field: Recreating a WW1 army hospital – BBC TV Blog
- The Crimson Field – Alice St Clair interview (exclusive) – Indie London
- Writer and creator Sarah Phelps talks about The Crimson Field – BBC Radio London
- Behind the scenes of new First World War drama The Crimson Field – History Extra
- Life on the frontline: New WWI drama The Crimson Field – Daily Express
- Suranne Jones: I burst into tears on The Crimson Field set – Radio Times
- Kevin Doyle on Downton Abbey and swapping serial killers and servants for an alpha male – Radio Times
- Professor helps recreate 1915 field hospital for BBC drama The Crimson Field – Manchester University
- Hermione Norris: ‘The Crimson Field is so visceral. Even the stage directions made me cry’ – What’s On TV
- The Crimson Field: Q&A – Life of Wylie
- Suranne Jones: ‘The Crimson Field’s my first period drama. But Joan’s a very modern character’ – What’s On TV
- True stories from WWI: The Crimson Field – British Red Cross Society
- Saluting the courage of World War One’s VADs – BBC News
- Malmesbury estate transformed into French hospital for BBC’s WWI drama – Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
- Casting News for The Ark – Casting Call Pro
- Movie stars on Berrow beach for filming of new BBC1 wartime drama – Burnham-On-Sea
- Cast announced for Sarah Phelps’ new First World War drama series, The Crimson Field – BBC Media Centre
- Suranne Jones, Oona Chaplin and Hermione Norris cast in First World War drama The Ark – Radio Times
- Richard Clark To Direct BBC One’s WWI Drama Series ‘The Ark’ – TV Wise