Testament of Youth - Adaptations

Adaptations

The book was the subject of a five part dramatisation on BBC2 which aired in 1979, starring Cheryl Campbell as Vera Brittain, Peter Woodward as Roland Leighton and Emrys James and Jane Wenham as Vera's parents.

In 1998, to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the Armistice, a fifteen-part radio dramatisation of the letters on which Testament of Youth was partly based was broadcast on BBC Radio Four. Entitled Letters from a Lost Generation, it was dramatised by Mark Bostridge and starred Amanda Root as Vera Brittain and Rupert Graves as Roland Leighton.

In 2009 it was announced that a feature film adaptation of Testament of Youth was in development by BBC Films and Heyday Films {producer David Heyman. This has the support of the Vera Brittain Estate, Brittain's daughter Shirley Williams, and Brittain's biographer Mark Bostridge who is acting as consultant. Saoirse Ronan was cast to play Brittain in 2012.