September 7, 2009 • 45m
Among the wartime stories included in the first programme are interviews with survivors of the Catford school bombing in South Lon...Read more
September 8, 2009 • 45m
The Week We Went To War pays tribute today to Home Front hero Thomas Hopper Alderson, who won Britain's first George Cross when he...Read more
September 9, 2009 • 45m
Today's programme looks at one of the worst nights of the Blitz – 29 December 1940 – and pays tribute to the ordinary British peop...Read more
September 10, 2009 • 45m
One hundred and seventy-three people were crushed to death in what was to become known as the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster. Witnes...Read more
September 11, 2009 • 45m
In the last programme of the series the story of one of the most unexpected and intensive bombing raids in Britain is told, when t...Read more