![]() ![]() The war is about to explode into the lives of Great Paxford’s Dr Campbell, played by Ed Stoppard, and his wife and two teenage daughters. ‘Frances is the person who would be at the front door holding the gun if the Germans invaded,’ says Samantha, ‘She feels there’s a snobbishness to Joyce, and that the WI could be socially more embracing.’Īs Joyce and Frances go into battle themselves, we will come to know the other characters inhabiting the village, as secrets, lies and a dashing RAF officer spice things up. ![]() ‘People were in awe of someone like that because they were so very powerful.’ Headstrong Frances feels the threat of war means Joyce needs to be more flexible. ‘Joyce is old-fashioned and very much the establishment figure in the village,’ says Francesca. It offers a different view of the war to the one we’re used to but it’s by no means saccharine.įrancesca Annis plays Joyce Cameron, a magistrate’s wife and president of the Great Paxford WI, who’s about to lock horns with Frances Barden, played by Samantha Bond, when Frances challenges the established order of things. This is not a story of jam-making and knitting, though there is some of both of course, but a raw and powerful drama about life in rural Britain during a period of upheaval, change and great danger. Home Fires is set in the fictional village of Great Paxford in Cheshire, and centres on the women at the heart of its WI circle as war breaks out in 1939. Julie Summers' story of the WI is being transformed into an on-screen drama ITV ![]()
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