I love Jo Brand. I saw her walking around an art gallery with her family a couple of weeks ago and it took all my will-power not to rush up and hug her. She's one of the most charismatic performers of recent years and one of very few women comics to have been allowed into the boys' club of panel games.
So I'll definitely be watching her new show about the First World War nurse Vera Brittain.
Vera's wartime autobiography Testament Of Youth was published in 1933 and became an instant bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.
A former psychiatric nurse herself, of course, Jo Brand will be following Vera's story through Britain and France, looking at letters and memoirs to see how ordinary people were affected by the war. Slightly worryingly, there are also going to be "dramatic reconstructions" of the events in the Vera's life.
The BBC says we should expect a 'heart-rending and vivid film... captures with poignant immediacy all the confusion, hope, agony and suspense of war as told through the eyes of a young woman in love'.
It will air on BBC One as part of a season 1918-2008: Ninety Years Of Remembrance running up to November 11.
