Richard Hodder

What Did You Do In the War, Mama? is set in 1917 when the powers of Europe are locked in a lethal war. Casualty numbers are enormous. There seems no way out of the stalemate. One evening, King George V and his advisers, including Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Army Commander of British Douglas Haig, and Munitions Minister, Winston Churchill are poisoned at dinner. Seriously ill, the men can no longer work and it falls to Queen Consort, Mary, to find a solution to this dangerous situation. And the question then becomes - what would happen if women ruled the world?

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.