Remembrance Week

Lost Heroes of World War One

The story of the Great War in the words of the men and women who lived through it.

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Bomber Boys: Revealed

The story of the British Bomber crews who narrowly escaped death in a Nazi concentration camp.

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A week of programmes remembering the men and women who fought and died in two world wars. Five-part series Lost Heroes of World War One is our last eyewitness account of the 1914-18 conflict, drawing on a unique archive of interviews to tell the story of those years in the words of the men and women who lived through them. Bomber Boys: Revealed restores to their rightful place the neglected veterans of Bomber Command – the only service never to receive war medals – and hears for the first time from the British airmen who narrowly escaped death in a Nazi concentration camp.

- 19:30 11 Nov 2011
- Channel 5 HD
Lost Heroes of World War One: 1 - Journey's End

Examining the last days of WWI, when thousands of half-trained 18-year-old British conscripts were sent to France to counter a massive German offensive.
- 19:30 10 Nov 2011
- Channel 5
Lost Heroes of World War One: 1 - Deadlock

Examining the battles of Arras and Passchendaele, with interview footage of late veterans Harry Patch and Henry Allingham.
- 19:30 9 Nov 2011
- Channel 5
Lost Heroes of World War One: 1 - The Home Front

An examination of the home front during WWI, charting the experiences of loss, along with the fighting spirit that emerged in Britain and the women who took on the opportunities to work in place of men.

Comments (3)

over 1 year ago

mambo

fao dave....."the series was only de-valued by the re-enactments that included a very well fed and continually smiling actor pretending to be a WW1 soldier."...... perhaps he should have been starved first sorry but there were no genuine ww1 soldiers left
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over 1 year ago

Dave Humpries

An excellent and moving series.One only comes near to understanding the suffering and loss these lads experienced after having visited the Commonwealth War Graves and battlefields of the Somme and Ypres.The series was only de-valued by the re-enactments that included a very well fed and continually smiling actor pretending to be a WW1 soldier.Please in future keep to actual footage-there is real drama in real people!
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over 1 year ago

John Callaghan

A very movingly made programme. Compelling, historical record of times we now cannot imagine. Should be an essential part of modern history teaching in schools. Hopefully it will be released for that purpose.
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