Keep The Home Fires Burning

Many people know of the Ivor Novello Awards but not the fascinating story of the man himself and the song that made his name. Keep The Home Fires Burning marks the centenary of a song that became popular both in the trenches and on the home front, and continued to be sung by soldiers in conflicts well into the 1950s. The programme features the best Ivor Novello tunes, some extraordinary Imperial War Museum archive and explores how music was used as a morale booster in the First World War. Keep The Home Fires Burning made Novello a fortune and launched a career that saw him become the leading composer of musical theatre of the 1930s and 1940s.

The story of Ivor Novello and the song that made his name.