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Gas gangrene, shell shock and flinty women: BBC One’s new Sunday night offering is no soother

The Crimson Field may be set during the First World War but the battlefields it focuses on are mental health and gender equality

Opinionated and recalcitrant: Oona Chaplin as Kitty Trevelyan [BBC Pictures] 
issue 12 April 2014
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Lara Prendergast is executive editor of The Spectator. She hosts two Spectator podcasts, The Edition and Table Talk, and edits The Spectator’s food and drink coverage.

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