Just reading the TV guide for next week and noticed this is showing every afternoon on channel 4 at 14.20 each programme lasting an hour. So I for one will be watching on channel 4 catchup as I will be at work in the afternoons

Mandy

Thats good for me I dont start work 'til 16.00 Hours!!!! [Thanks C4!]

Also repeated at 15:20 on C4+1
Peter

Also Broadcast in glorious Hi Definition on C4 HD Channel.I will be recording and editing the entire series (No Adverts).If anyone who has missed the series and requires a copy please PM me.....

What a great shame its on CH4, just started watching part 1 and after 10 minutes a load of bl**dy inane adverts so I completely lost interest. What a pity the BBC did not do this.

Norman

See my Previous Post Norman..NO ADVERTS.I dont think the BBC considers this type of programme multicultural enough.

I have this amazing facility - I save the programme to my recorder and watch it later. I can then omit the ads

Although I have some reservations about the reconstructed sections of these programmes, I have very much enjoyed the interviews. The one yesterday (about medical care) was particularly good, and I enjoyed hearing from the former nurses. Worth watching if you haven't seen the series before.

Swizz

I thought yesterday's episode was very good.

I think that is a bit unfair on Auntie Beeb. The BBC - especially BBC 2 and BBC 4 have done and are doing many WWI related programmes (BBC 4 has a war grave season soon). Last year the BBC did many programmes as part of the 1918 - 2008 anniversary. (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance/ )

I also believe that people of all cultures and beliefs did in what was the first WORLD war, so I am particularly confused by the multicultural moan at the BBC I thought the recent BBC production about Muslims in WWI was excellent.

In my OWN personal opinion i thought that the Programme about Muslim Soldiers in WW1 was a Sop,and it gave me the impression that it had been rather poorly researched,and hurriedly put together,i really thought the programme was second rate.My Opinions only.

Anyone know the provenance of these programmes. Appear to have been made by the History Channel in 2008 for the 90th anniversary of the end of the war but broadcast by Channel 4. Did the History Channel ever broadcast them?
They are produced by Richard Van Emden and use those surviving over the past 15 years.

In the first two these were...

Richard Hawkins 11/RF
Robbie Burns 7/Cameronians
Jack Rogers 1/7th Sherwood Foresters
Ted Francis 16th Royal Warwicks (Bham Pals who when alive talked to Terry Carter)
George Littlefair 1/8th DLI
George Louth 15/Hants
Tom Dewing 34th Division RE Signal Coy
Arthur Wagstaff 1/4th London
Fred Francis 11th Border (Lonsdale)
Joe Yarwood 94th Field Ambulance
Norman Collins 1/6th Seaforths
Archie Richards D Coy, Heavy Section, MGC

They are good quality documentaries. Home Front tomorrow. 1918 on Monday. Arras/Passchendaele today.

This series was made by Testimony Films, according to their website it was made in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum for The History Channel.

Mandy

And by the wonders of technology, i'm going to identify the title music which has been the cause of numerous threads and general internet questions.

Disaster, shows how much I know about Channel 4 on demand was going to settle down tonight and watch but its not available

Mandy

PBI,

Your comments on this thread made me reconsider my opinion of the programme - it could have and should have been a much better programme. When it was broadcast I personally found it interesting and informative, it was more a comment on the subject matter than the quality of the programme.

I cull my following comments from my post on the thread relating to the programme.

....in particular, the continual reminding that it was an aspect of the Great War little known and greatly overlooked; overt implications that with more recent history in mind (Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan) that the current generation ought to learn more of this past. Well, if it is a piece of Great War history that is greatly overlooked and important to the current generation (which it indeed is) why run a 30 minute programme at 11.25pm at night and not a programme of say an hour in length during an evening time slot?

Ian.