Aired Friday 1 November, 11:05pm - 1:05amon BBC Two

Testament of Youth (2014)

Biography / Historical drama / War

During World War I, a young English woman named Vera Brittain, postpones her studies at Oxford University to serve as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in London and abroad. After the war she returns to Oxford to read history and later becomes a writer, feminist and pacifist.

Country: United Kingdom

Cast and crew

James KentDirector
Alicia VikanderVera Brittain
Kit HaringtonRoland Leighton
Taron EgertonEdward Brittain
Colin MorganVictor Richardson
Emily WatsonMrs. Brittain
Dominic WestMr. Brittain
Hayley AtwellHope
Miranda RichardsonMiss Lorimer
Anna ChancellorMrs. Leighton
Charlotte HopeBetty
Joanna ScanlanAunt Belle
Jonathan BaileyGeoffrey Thurlow

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