Hi Ellie Oh I do hope we hear Damien / Hardy Walsh again in the next series (which I assume will be the last ever series). It would have been more of a certainty if he and Emily not been mentioned in the last episode of this series, because their story needed closure. But the brief mention of them dancing together could (kind of) count as closure, as the audience now are more sure of their romance developing. But it would be great if the final final ep ended on a wedding too wouldn't it? Especially after that "imagine that" scene when Cyrus thought they were getting married!
Fingers crossed!

It's only right that all locations are covered Ellie!

I've just read the final series begins 24 September...

You said:
"I just hope "something in the pipeline" isn't code for "nothing right now". "

I guess you're referring to his recent Lovetalkin podcast interview?
That is definitely not the way i read it - you're missing the last part of that sentence, which more than implies particular projects on the way!

"you have a lot of things in the pipeline haven't you, which you can't talk about"

 

Although I do share your yearning for more DaMo... and soon! 

RPLovesIpswich wrote:

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I love Damien's enthusiasm for radio work. It's probably not considered the most glamorous work in acting circles but it gives pleasure to lots of listeners.

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Me too Rosie, and very grateful for it. I often wonder about the radio process from the actor's point of view - it must be a very different experience without the visual 'recording' of the work. I'd love to know more about these recordings, they are very much a ensemble and must be recording that way.

Damien's series of Home Front is being aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra at the moment! 

Despite having listened and downloaded many times, it is still a treat to hear 'live' on the radio The Old Fashioned Way

I totally have my fingers crossed for a HardyEmily romance. This special sounds like a moving way to mark the end of the programme.

I felt that the slight glimmer of the possibility of a possibility of a romance between Hardy and Emily was mutual, not just on Hardy's side - especially in that moment in the '1 August 1918 - Emily Colville' episode when Cyrus thought they were getting married and they both responded with "imagine that".

This was followed by the last mention in series 14 of Hardy and Emily, and they were dancing together

So we are certainly be led towards a romance for the pair!

Ann, as mentioned in this post, Series 15 is the final ever series of Home Front and it is set in Folkestone now Devon.

But there is a special flash forward episode which is over an hour long "set on the 10th of  November 1919 on the eve of the first rememberance day, the first anniversary of the armistice, and it's an opportunity to flash forward in our characters lives and imagine where they might be. And that really is our final goodbye, that really is when we try and finish as many stories as we possibly can."

As Emily Colville is a main character and her family circumstances turbulent, it seems possible we will have some completion to her story.  So fingers crossed our pair have a mention!

The best case scenario would be Emily and Hardy appearing in the special final episode.. hopefully closure on their story won't just be a mention !

For everyone reading...

have you all listened to Damien's episodes of Home Front?

They are all still available to listen and download worldwide!

 

’20 June 1918 – Hardy Walsh’
12.04 – 12.15
20 June 2018

(Listen & download here)

’27 June 1918 – Emily Colville’
12.04 – 12.15
27 June 2018

(Listen & download here)

‘4 July 1918 – Morris Battley’
12.04 – 12.15
4 July 2018

(Listen & download here)

’23 July 1918 – Emily Colville’
12.04 – 12.15
23 July 2018

(Listen & download here)

‘1 August 1918 – Emily Colville’
12.04 – 12.15
1 August 2018

(Listen & download here)

 

Unfortunately, Home Front is mainly about Kitty Lumley, everyone else is secondary. But hopefully we will get to hear that she and Hardy are a couple - a mention in a letter from Cora, perhaps? I did like them, and not just because of Damien 😊

I was quite disappointed in the hour long episode. It was a different format from the other episodes and revolved solely around Folkstone. The first ten minutes were spent in detailing what people were dreaming - I felt someone wanted to be thought literary rather than tying up loose ends.

Spoiler alert! We learned:
That Kitty had another boy, that her mother had died of flu and that she and Victor were going to look after Isaac and try for another child themselves.
That Sylvia had been killed crossing the road and some thought it may have been suicide as it would have been her son's birthday.
That Bill Macknade had died and his widow was off to Canada, their daughter Esme was going to Antwerp to marry her milliner.
That Edie is now the cleaner at the library as the assistant librarian has returned from the war and she and Marion are now an item (they started off in Tynemouth and were friends of Kitty Lumley).
Looks like Adam and Jessie are now an item again.
Oh, and Isabel was struggling as Charles was developing a dependence on alcohol.

But so much was ignored, even in Folkstone. Suddenly, Adam was joining the police force. Nothing about what had happened over his confession of how Sam had died - I really wanted to know about that. What about Howard, how had he coped with being a widower? Was he still being pursued by Juliet?
No mention at all of what happened to those in the other areas, Tynemouth and Devon.
I have listened to Home Front since it began and would have preferred it not to have the follow up hour, it added nothing and barely touched on the problems people had after the war ended.