

The Week We Went To War
Katherine Jenkins and Michael Aspel celebrate the heroes of the Home Front.
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- Ep 1
1.Episode 1
07-09-200945mAmong the wartime stories included in the first programme are interviews with survivors of the Catford school bombing in South London. Mary Burge, then six years old, tells how th...

2.Episode 2
08-09-200945mThe Week We Went To War pays tribute today to Home Front hero Thomas Hopper Alderson, who won Britain's first George Cross when he saved 11 lives after a German air raid on Bridlin...

3.Episode 3
09-09-200945mToday's programme looks at one of the worst nights of the Blitz – 29 December 1940 – and pays tribute to the ordinary British people and, in particular, the firemen of London who h...
- Ep 4
4.Episode 4
10-09-200945mOne hundred and seventy-three people were crushed to death in what was to become known as the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster. Witnesses talk about the worst civilian tragedy on the H...
- Ep 5
5.Episode 5
11-09-200945mIn the last programme of the series the story of one of the most unexpected and intensive bombing raids in Britain is told, when the town of Clydebank, in Scotland, was virtually w...
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