
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the bombed-out ruins of Ypres in 1916 Captain Fred Roberts & Lieutenant Jack Pearson discovered a printing press They used it to produce The Wipers Times a humorous satirical & subversive trench newspaper which proved hugely popular with soldiers
- though not entirely with their superior officers Braving constant bombardment & bitter fighting The Wipers Times survived the Somme & made it through to the end of the war Roberts & Pearson were highly decorated
- yet were unrecognised in their lifetime The Wipers Times is a story of the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity The Wipers Times stars Ben Chaplin (London Boulevard Me & Orson Welles The New World) Julian Rhind-Tutt (The Hour Green Wing) Michael Palin (Monty Python & the Holy Grail Life Of Brian) Steve Oram (Sightseers Kill List) & Emilia Fox (Silent Witness Merlin) & is directed by Andy de Emmony (Love Bite West Is West The Bletchley Circle) produced by David Parfitt (My Week with Marilyn Parades End Shakespeare In Love) & written by Ian Hislop (A Bunch of Amateurs My Dads The Prime Minister) & Nick Newman shed a tear
- The Telegraph It was a wonderful tale waiting to be retold The Daily mail An extraordinary true story Funny sad & parculiliarly British & told with an affectionate twinkle Lovely The Guardian