Explosive action above and beneath the trenches

It’s 1915 on the Western Front. Stalemate is leading to a bloody war of attrition in the trenches: something’s got to give. Enter Colonel ‘Hellfire Jack’ Norton-Griffiths (played by Tom Goodman-Hill of Mr Selfridge and The Imitation Game), who has a plan to blow up the German positions from below ground. A team of Yorkshire ‘clay-kickers’, coal miners in civilian life, are given the job of tunnelling under enemy lines and laying explosives. Cue a story of almost unbearable claustrophobic tension, palpable fear and raw bravery, starring Sam Hazeldine (inset, on left, who played George Sewell in Peaky Blinders), Douglas Reith and Andrew Scarborough.

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