A widow describes the moment music hall star Vesta Tilley recruited her young husband Percy Morter as a soldier in 1914.

Archive with Kitty from World War One At Home, a BBC and Imperial War Museums partnership

24 February 2014

11 minutes

This clip is from

Woman's Hour—Mary Wilson; Woman's Hour Power List Review

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