Listen to Michael Morpurgo's moving World War 1 story Private Peaceful, abridged in 13 episodes and read by Paul Chequer. Thomas - 'Tommo' - Peaceful recalls his young life to date: growing up on ...

We learn from him for the first time that a Private Peaceful will be shot for cowardice at six o’clock that morning: 25th June 1916… Tommo’s recollection returns to the frontline where he fell.

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of ...