Season 1 (2009)

Episode 1
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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

Episode 2
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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

Episode 3
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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

Episode 4
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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

Episode 5
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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