Episode list

Britain's Great War

War Comes to Britain
The early stages of the war and fear of invasion. How Britain expanded its small army of 80,000 and mobilised 500,000 volunteers.
8.5 /10
The War Machine

Sun, Feb 02, 2014
Explores aspects of the economic restructuring of Britain between 1915-18 to mass produce weapons and munitions, and societal changes caused by it. Focused on the ministerial and Prime Ministerial activities of David Lloyd George.
9 /10
The Darkest Hour
Jeremy describes Germany's attempt to starve the country into submission - could the Win the War Cookbook save the day? Hoarders are put on trial as newspapers expose how the rich dine out on lobsters in Mayfair.
9 /10
At the Eleventh Hour
Jeremy describes how the country came to the very brink of defeat in the last year of the war. Grieving parents held seances to contact their dead sons and surgeons battled to rebuild the faces of the wounded.
9.2 /10

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