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Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2, Pals
directed by Ben Chanan, fl. 2003-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
1916, and Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins the Manchester Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. They soon discover that the whole of their neigh...
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directed by Ben Chanan, fl. 2003-2016; produced by Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Our World War, Season 1, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2014), 58 mins
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1916, and Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins the Manchester Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. They soon discover that the whole of their neighborhood has joined up, including a nearby factory foreman, now their sergeant, Mitchell, and their friend Lizzie, who has become a volu...
1916, and Britain's armed forces are decimated. Across the country, friends join up to fight together, in new battalions known as 'Pals'. Paddy Kennedy, a warehouse clerk from Manchester, joins the Manchester Pals Battalion alongside his friends Henry, Andy and Jim. They soon discover that the whole of their neighborhood has joined up, including a nearby factory foreman, now their sergeant, Mitchell, and their friend Lizzie, who has become a volunteer nurse.
These pals are set to become part of the largest offensive ever mounted by the British Army, the Battle of the Somme. But after a successful first day, they are ordered to seize control of Trones Wood, a thickly forested copse riddled with enemy soldiers and impossible to navigate. Through all this, they survive shellfire and ambush, evade capture by the Germans and encounter the mysterious Private William Hunt, whose fate will become forever entwined with the life of Paddy Kennedy.
Paddy's journey leads to the deadliest mission of all - the execution by firing squad of one of his pals. How will Paddy survive becoming a soldier?
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Field of Study
Drama
Content Type
Diary/Memoir/Autobiography, Performance
Contributor
Stuart Bentley, fl. 2008, Susan Horth, fl. 2003-2016, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Ben Chanan, fl. 2003-2016
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Our World War
Topic / Theme
Recorded history, War, Soldiers, British
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 BBC Worldwide
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