Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries

Home Front Heroes with Ian Lavender (2016x84)

Fecha de emisión: Nov 06, 2016

Forty years on from Dad's Army, one of Britain's best-loved actors, Ian Lavender (who played Pike), meets the men and women who were just teenagers when they served on the Home Front during the Second World War. Pike from Dad's Army served in the Home Guard, but this was just a part of the larger Home Front. What was life really like for the millions of young people serving in thousands of different roles that were so vital to victory? Travelling across the country, Ian takes to the skies in a Spitfire, meets former land girls, nurses, WAFS, entertainers, forestry workers and coal-mining Bevin Boys - all of whom had wartime experiences that changed them forever. At a time of the year when the nation remembers the wartime sacrifices of previous generations, Ian meets the often unsung heroes who 'did their bit' for their country.