Listen to Michael Morpurgo's moving World War 1 story Private Peaceful, abridged in 13 episodes and read by Paul Chequer. Thomas - 'Tommo' - Peaceful recalls his young life to date: growing up on ...

We learn from him for the first time that a Private Peaceful will be shot for cowardice at six o’clock that morning: 25th June 1916… Tommo’s recollection returns to the frontline where he fell.

When author Michael Morpurgo learned about the British Army’s practice of executing its own soldiers during the First World War, it spurred him to write his 2003 award-winning novel “Private Peaceful.