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Third programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT covering the period 1943-47. Tells the story of the British people preparing for war and living through the events of the ‘Phoney War’, Dunkirk, the...
Two films by Kenneth Griffith on the Irish Uprising of 1916.
Tells the stories of show people’s lives and culture, and how it has changed over the last hundred years. Individual recollections are combined with contemporary and old film footage, photographs and...
First programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1940-42. Eyewitness accounts by ordinary British citizens tell how they coped with everyday life against a backdrop of air raid...
BBC correspondent Fergal Keane travels around Britain listening to the stories of ordinary people who find themselves on the fringes of society and surviving on limited means. He begins in Glasgow, among the...
In July 1998, producers at 40 local and regional BBC radio stations began interviewing 6,000 people from all backgrounds, ranging in age from 4 to 107. The aim was to capture the experience of the last...
Ordinary British people recall the critical months starting in May 1940 when Britain faced the threat of Nazi Germany. In four parts: 1) up to the Dunkirk evacuation, showing Chruchill at work and Thora Hird...
Explains what it meant to live and fight on the Western Front, from the innocent patriotism of Kitchener’s Army to the war-weary anger of the war poets. Uses contemporary film footage and photographic...
Series in which military historian Richard Holmes examines how World War 1 was fought in trenches, forts and bunkers, with the aim of highlighting the contrasts on the battlefields where ‘ancient ideas of...
A BYGONES special produced by Anglia Television in 1975, recalling the age before the tractor when farm work revolved around the horses. Oral historian George Ewart recognised that as this generation of...
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