Rueben's Ramblings

The 6-part 2014 mini-series The Crimson Field will debut here in the US on PBS on June 21 at 10 PM.

Following the lives of nurses and their patients at a Western Front field hospital in France, this mini-series begins at the beginning of World War II with the Voluntary Aid Detachments, or VAD’s, and their arrival as the first volunteer nurses at the field hospitals on the coast of France.

The cast includes Hermione Norris (Spooks/MI5), Oona Chaplin (The Hour and Game of Thrones), Suranne Jones (A Touch of Cloth) and Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey).

Here is a trailer for The Crimson Field: