"Oh What A Lovely War" was first commissioned & staged by the wonderful Joan Littlewood in 1965. Testament to Youth was dramatised for television in 1979 & I remember it being a first class production. Blackadder Goes Forth could not have had a more brilliant ending brought tears after all the laughs. > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:19:11 +0100 (BST) > From: T BURTON <tonyburton462@btinternet.com> > Subject: [NTT] World War One satire > To: "nottsgen@rootsweb.com" <nottsgen@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: > <1378894751.6776.YahooMailNeo@web186101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > I'm looking forward to viewing Wipers Times as well.? My Mother and Father were both in their teens during this war; my Father being a young Stretcher Bearer in France from 1916 onwards.? Although I also enjoyed the satire of Black Adder (a brilliant ending to the series) I still think the best satire about World War One was Richard Attenborough's film "Oh what a lovely War"?.? More so because much of the script was based on words actually spoken by the main movers. > ? > For anyone interested in this part of our history I would also recommend a brilliantly written book "The Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain (Mother of the politician, Shirley Williams) aptly described as 'A Haunting elegy for a lost generation'? Vera Brittain makes the point that as well as those killed, the whole generation effectively lost it's youth. > Tony Burton. > End of NOTTSGEN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 210 > ****************************************