BBC Drama

The Wipers Times (2013x8)

Air date: Sep 12, 2013

In the bombed-out ruins of the Belgian town of Ypres in 1916, Captain Fred Roberts and Lieutenant Jack Pearson discover a printing press and decide to start a satirical newspaper to raise the spirits of the British troops. It proves hugely popular with the men in the trenches - but their superior officers see it as an act of insubordination and subversion and call for a ban.