The Cultural Front - Ep3: Kandinsky, Khaki & Kisses

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The Cultural Front - Ep3: Kandinsky, Khaki & Kisses

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Mar 22, 2014

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For Radio 4, Francine Stock explores how artists responded to the outbreak of war on either side of the conflict and hears how the publishing world fed the appetite for women's popular fiction.

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Mar 22, 2014

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The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.

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The Cultural Front - Ep3: Kandinsky, Khaki & Kisses: For Radio 4, Francine Stock explores how artists responded to the outbreak of war on... by World War One
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Month of Madness - London: Professor Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to WW1. by World War One
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Gavrilo Princip's Footprint: On the sunny morning of June 28 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot dead the Archduke Ferdinand... by World War One
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The Cultural Front - Ep3: Kandinsky, Khaki & Kisses

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