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TuneInCan a film about the First World War work without trenches or battles?
In this episode of Oh What a Lovely Podcast, Angus, Jessica and Chris discuss the 2025 film The Choral, which uses song, performance and collective experience to explore the impact of the First World War on a northern English community. We talk about what the film gets right, where it challenges expectations, and how it fits into wider portrayals of the war on screen.
References
The Choral (2025) Dir. Nicholas Hytner.
Love Actually (2003), dir. by Richard Curtis (UK: Working Title Films)
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Florence: privately printed, 1928)
Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (London: Bantam Press, 1989)
The Battle of the Somme (1916), dir. by Geoffrey H. Malins and John B. McDowell (UK: British Topical Committee for War Films)
Women at War (Les Combattantes) (2022), television series, created by Alexandre Benzekri (France: TF1)
Nicoletta F. Gullace, The Blood of Our Sons: Men, Women and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship During the Great War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
