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Tomorrow we launch another rich batch of stories capturing how lives were affected here at home in the First World War.The simple premise for World War One at Home has been to reveal surprising stories about ‘place’. What an incredible journey of discovery it has been for us all.Ìý

From next week we will hear how Bob Marley’s father came to be in a Shropshire army camp, why jamming in Grimsby turned out to be seriously big business and about the Devon moss which was used to dress the wounds of the injured troops.

We are adding more than 200 new stories to our growing collection online, and they go out across ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ local radio in England and national radio stations in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, as we build up 1,400 stories across the UK.Ìý

World War One at Home TV programmes feature on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One this Monday, as our regional TV teams air more untold stories in 11 half hour documentaries fronted by Kate Adie, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Anthony Horowitz to name a few. Ìý

Available for everyone to watch on iPlayer,Ìýwe recall all sorts of dramatic episodes including the War in the North Sea and the agonising decision made by one Trawler Captain who turned his back on a group of German airmen whose Zeppelin had crash landed in the stormy waters.

Many of these films will be shown on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Four later in the year. I'll let you know when they'll be broadcast, nearer the time.

We’ve made our World War One at Home collection easier to search online, as from Monday the stories can be searchedÌýby location – so people can find tales which are closest to where they live.

We are also taking World War One at Home out on the road to the nations and regions of the UK through a series of live broadcast events run by the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ in conjunction with main partners Imperial War Museums, and many local groups. You can find . I’m on my way home from the Suffolk Show as I write, and we’ve had an amazing 6,000 visitors to our exhibit already and the day’s not even over yet.Ìý We visit 25 more sites the length and breadth of the UK this summer, ending in Derby in September.

I was part of the commissioning process which at the outset selected the 100 stories for each nation and region. We felt then that many of these stories hadn’t been given the profile and treatment they deserved. They were unusual, compelling, and inevitably many had a tragic conclusion. Ìý

When we began to tell these stories using new technology, allowing us more easily to piece together audio, stills, artefacts and film from the time, we knew we were building something special which we hope, will remain so for generations to come.

Scotland’s stories disclose how the famous colourist and artist J D Fergusson avoided active service. Wales chronicles some of the most serious riots in British military history which were at Kinmel Park, and Ireland remembers the veterans from Newtownards who built a memorial out of snow to commemorate their fallen friends.

One of our earliest commissioned stories comes from the West of England. It has now been turned into a song by the Bristol singer-songwriter Daisy Chapman. The work is based on letters between Elizabeth Brain and her husband James, fighting on the Western Front. I won’t give it away, so .

This story is also one of a number featured in our specially commissioned which can be shared across social media.Ìý

I do hope you’re following these stories, and that you look forward to the next instalment in the collection, which will tie in with the anniversary of the outbreak of war on August 4.

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