Kisses on a Postcard is a stage musical written by Terence Frisby

Terence Frisby

Terence Frisby is a London-based playwright and novelist, best known as the author of the play There's A Girl In My Soup.-Personal life:...

 with music by Gordon Clyde, John Altman

John Altman (composer)

John Altman is a British film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor.-Biography:Altman was introduced to the music of the 1930s and 1940s at an early age by an uncle who arranged and composed music for big bands and conducted for Judy Garland, the Marx Brothers, and Laurel and Hardy,...

, and Tom Recknell based on Frisby's experiences as an evacuee, or 'vacky', during World War II

World War II

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. When he was just 7 and his brother Jack was 11, they were sent from their family in South East London

South East (London sub region)

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 to a small village in Cornwall

Cornwall

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 to escape German

Germany

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 bombing during the Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain

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. They were two of over three and a half million children evacuated from cities in Britain, the largest migration of people in UK history.

The musical began life as the radio play Just Remember Two Things: It's Not Fair And Don't Be Late, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

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 and on BBC World Service

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. It won Frisby the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play in 1988.

The musical was premiered at the Queens Theatre in Barnstaple

Barnstaple

Barnstaple is a town and civil parish in the local government district of North Devon in the county of Devon, England, UK. It lies west southwest of Bristol, north of Plymouth and northwest of the county town of Exeter. The old spelling Barnstable is now obsolete.It is the main town of the...

 in 2004 under the title Just Remember Two Things.

It is also a book Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood (2009), edited by Bloomsbury

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