A Family At War - Series 1 [DVD]

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Despite furious battles with authorities, and while pursuing her hectic career in Family At War, Atkins went on to revolutionise the fostering system. And in any case, the intrigues and affairs, the stand-up rows and the unspoken tensions are all sufficiently fascinating to make A Family at War a deeply compelling drama.

A lot of the time though, each episode of the series ended on a depressing note involving a sudden character drama moment.Liverpool 1938 is the starting point for this drama series depicting the World War II experiences of the fictional Ashtons, Jean and Edwin, and their five children. It looks as though this programme may be in danger of dropping off the popular radar, not to mention the academic radar; for instance, it isn’t included in Lez Cooke’s excellent overview British Television Drama (* see |Les Cooke’s further work), even as a footnote.

Similarly One of Ours (Episode 10) in September 1940 follows a bombing raid on Germany, focussing almost entirely on David, ignoring the rest of the family.Granada’s most expensive-ever serial at the time, A Family At War was a dour series centred around the working class Ashton family of Liverpool, starting in 1938 and following the clan through the harsh realities of war. com episode guide) written by Philip Purser, where a soldier, Sergeant Hazard, (Maurice Roeves) uses the word ‘wog’ several times in the Western Desert campaign in North Africa.

The classic ITV series chronicling the fortunes of the Ashton family living in Liverpool during the Second World War.While reading the book, one thing that struck me was the “tourism” that followed the war, as people flocked to the battlefields to witness the scene of all the action. This is a terrific series of 52 episodes, following the Ashton family of Liverpool through the war years, 1938-1945. The memorable theme tune is from the end of the First Movement (Allegro) of Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony. It’s the realistic touch, or the brilliant acting, or the interesting story, though probably all of them together.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A point which was brought out (I wish I could remember the title of the book) is that British and American troops related far better to the defeated Germans, and fraternised more with them, than they related to the vast numbers of bedraggled, starving released Jews, slave labourers, Russian prisoners-of-war and other displaced persons. The real problem, though, is not so much with this series but with the considerably superior offerings that came later. I remember sitting down to watch AFaW with my mother, expecting somethjng along the lines of a war film or something similar to the Colditz series about prisoners of war from the same period.Regardless it was absolutely amazing and I was impressed by the whole production and whenever I hear that particular Vaughn Williams piece on the radio I instantly am reminded of the series, as I am when they play the Boccherini piece that was in the Peter Sellers’ film, The Lavender Hill Mob. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GFDL; additional terms may apply.