TV Show Details
Air Date:November 4th, 1979
Last Air Date:December 2nd, 1979
Network:BBC One
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama , War & Politics
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC
Testament of Youth (1979)
BBC One
Miniseries
"A time when war overshadowed everything but hope"
Audience Score
DirectorMoira Armstrong
Plot
A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing "hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood." Her plan is to attend Oxford.
