Landmarks: Children at War
Children at War is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 1980s, 1990s & 2000s, covering history for primary school pupils.
A documentary unit about the Second World War from various perspectives, including interviews with residents of Britain, the occupied Netherlands, and the ultimately defeated Germany.
The programmes were slightly revised for repeats in 1991, and an additional episode about life in the Channel Islands at war as also added then.
The unit had originally been envisaged as a purely field work series in which children interview their grandparents, and was to be titled The Home Front.
Defeat... for Others
War in the Channel Islands
Episode List
| # | Title | Broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Evacuees | 18 Sep 1989 |
| 2. | The Blitz | 25 Sep 1989 |
| 3. | Occupation | 2 Oct 1989 |
| 4. | Victory... for Some | 9 Oct 1989 |
| 5. | Defeat... for Others | 16 Oct 1989 |
| 6. | War in the Channel Islands: The Story of Guernsey | 23 Mar 1992 |
Broadcasts
| Year | Term | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Channel | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-90 | Autumn 1989 | Monday, 1:40pm | Thursday, 11:00am | BBC2 | from 18 Sep | |||
| 1991-92 | Spring 1992 | Monday, 1:40pm | Thursday, 11:10am | BBC2 | from 10 Feb | |||
| Summer 1992 | Tuesday, 1:40pm | Wednesday, 10:15am | BBC2 | from 26 May, Provision for hearing-impaired children |
In addition the episode on Defeat... for Others was repeated in Summer 1994, on Monday 13th June at 10:00am on BBC2.
The episodes on The Evacuees (retitled Evacuation), The Blitz and Victory... for Some (retitled just Victory) were repeated as part of the Landmarks unit on Britain Since 1930 from 1994 to 2002, and the Channel Islands episode was also repeated in the same unit for a short time.
Credits
| Presenters | Roger Finn (episodes 1, 2 & 4) Hans Verhoeven (episode 3) Dietmar Haack (episode 5) Tony Winsor (episode 6, narrator) |
| Music | Jonathan Cohen (episodes 1-5) Martin Cordell (episode 6) |
| Consultants | John Robottom (episodes 1-5) Margaret Boden-Heaume & Richard Lenfesty-Heaume (episode 6, historical advisers) |
| Directors | Ronald Smedley (episodes 2 & 4) Paul Fisher (episodes 3 & 5) |
| Series producer | Peter M. Evans (episode 6) |
| Producers | Ronald Smedley (episodes 2 & 4) Patricia Williams (episodes 3 & 5) Kerena Marchant (episode 6) |
Resources
There were teacher's notes and a book available.
Related programmes
- Zig Zag: Snapshots: Children in the Second World WarThe same topic covered for younger viewers just over a decade later...
- Children of World War II… and the same topic another decade on.
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