Posted: Sun May 08, 05 8:28 am Post subject: War's EndRadio
Radio 4 Monday 09:00 Coming Home
Charles Wheeler presents five personal interpretations of what the end of the Second World War meant to people in Britain and across the world. In a series running across the week, he traces the ways in which the previous years of hostilities led to a growing realisation that nothing was as it had been before. Through new interviews and rarely-heard archive recordings, those directly involved - the soldier, the POW, the war widow and those who didn't fight - tell their stories of the end of war, of homecoming, and adjustment to new realities.
1/5. War's End
The War ground to a halt in Europe on 8th May 1945. But in the Far East it was still raging, and celebrations at home were in stark contrast to events on the other side of the world. The first programme explores first-hand experiences of the war's end and its delays.
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