Airdate: World on Fire
Big budget WWII drama with Helen Hunt & Sean Bean comes to BBC First.
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Big budget drama World on Fire is coming to BBC First in October.
The 7 part series is described as “a heart-stopping, multi-stranded drama telling the story of World War Two through the lives of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict.”
The cast includes Helen Hunt, Sean Bean and Lesley Manville.
The first series depicts the horror of the outbreak of the war during its first year. It traces the intertwining fates of relatable, vividly drawn characters from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
Writer Peter Bowker says: “From Harry, a young English translator in Warsaw caught up in negotiations with the Nazis and trying to smuggle his Polish lover Kasia out of the country, to Lois, the girl who is waiting for him at home, a young Mancunian factory worker who will come to take all the opportunities the war can offer to live a different kind of life. From Nancy, a female US war correspondent who can’t find peace unless her life is at risk, to the Rossler family in Berlin, worried for their soldier son and willing to do anything to protect their disabled daughter from the attentions of the ruling Nazi regime. These are the stories of the ordinary people who shaped our world. Stories of loyalty and brutality, courage and fear, hopes, stories of love and loss, hopes and dreams forged in extraordinary times.”
Sunday, October 13 at 8.30pm on BBC First.
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The cast includes Helen Hunt, Emmy, Sean Bean and Lesley Manville.
Who is this Emmy you speak of? ?
World on Fire looks promising, having this story focus on different nationalities and their wartime experiences will highlight some lesser known historical aspects for younger viewers who may be unfamiliar with WWII history. Hopefully at its conclusion this series will have adequately show WWII experienced from the civilians point of view and how men and women called up as servicemen into an unwanted war experienced life and obviously death. There may be a chance that a big budget modern history series like World on Fire will be a long time happening again so the producers must be admired for their ambition.
Sounds rather like ‘A Family At War’ for those old enough to remember-possibly even ‘The Sullivans’!
Oh Sean Bean and considering the theme of this show he won’t last long. First episode or last episode who wants to take bets?