MiniseriesEnded
Testament of Youth (1979)
A time when war overshadowed everything but hope
1 season5 episodes200 min per episode
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.
- First aired
- November 4, 1979
- Last episode
- December 2, 1979
- Network
- BBC One
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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Cast
- Cheryl Campbell as Vera Brittain
- Emrys James as Mr. Brittain
- Jane Wenham as Mrs. Brittain
- Peter Woodward as Roland Leighton
- Rupert Frazer as Edward Brittain
- Rosalie Crutchley as Miss Penrose
- Gary Watson as Poetry Spoken By
- Michael Troughton as Victor Richardson
- Geoffrey Burridge as Geoffrey
- Frances Tomelty as Sister Hope Milroy