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Television

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

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

12 April 2014

9:00 AM

Sunday nights. What are they for? Eggs. Tea. Toast. Nerves about the week ahead. Something comforting on TV.  But comfort comes in many forms. For some, it’s twee life at Downton Abbey. For others, it’s the thrill of Homeland. With the BBC’s latest Sunday-night offering, comfort takes on a new guise: one that includes gas gangrene, shell shock, flinty women and war-damaged men.

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