Francine Stock explores how World War I changed art, words and society.
Radio 4,Β·15 episodes
The Return of the Soldier
Francine Stock concludes her four-year exploration of how artists responded to WWI.
1918: Vienna and the Fall of an Empire
Francine Stock examines the cultural life of Vienna in 1918.
1918: Chaplin Goes to War
The propaganda and protest art that comes from America at war
An Intimate War
Francine Stock considers the intimate impact of war on society and culture.
Reality and Reconstruction
Francine Stock explores how the First World War transformed the arts across Europe.
The Jazz Kings Go to War
The story of the Harlem Hellfighters and how jazz conquered France.
Bleeding France
1916. The year of Verdun and the Somme. Could artists and writers convey this new hell?
The Tank and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Fires
1916: Tanks capture the public imagination, but the comforts of home are shattered by war.
Dada and Defiance
1916. Dada is born and Jerusalem is sung. Gorky defends Jewish life in print.
Glimpses of a Modern World
Francine Stock continues her exploration of the culture of World War I in 1915.
A Cubist War
Francine Stock explores a fragmented world through the prism of the art it created.
War on the Mind
How the harrowing effects of WWI became apparent in art, music and poetry.
Words for Battle
In 1914, intellectuals and authors were soon seen as crucial to the war effort.
Arf a Mo, Kaiser: Popular Culture on All Fronts
Francine Stock on popular culture in Britain, France, Germany and Russia as war begins.
Kandinsky, Khaki and Kisses
Francine Stock explores how artists and the publishing world responded to the war.
