The Wipers Times (2013)
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Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Ben Chaplin, Patrick FitzSymons, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Steve Oram. Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers' pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from...
