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that blitz progamme

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southeastastra · 24/04/2010 20:19

really can't understand the point of it, other than to scare small children. there is enough footage of it really happening. confused

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BertieBotts · 24/04/2010 20:19

I was just looking at that, was going to watch it in a bit, did you see it?

southeastastra · 24/04/2010 20:22

yes most of it

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elvislives · 24/04/2010 20:23

They haven't been able to see the actual physical impact of the bombing before but can now do so. I found it very interesting. My dad told me that a family over the back from them were all found in their air-raid shelter, all apparently unhurt, still sitting, but all dead. It was the lung-shock they were discussing on the programme.

(don't think it is intended viewing for small children)

southeastastra · 24/04/2010 20:25

oh that's awful, ok see the point then, i wonder why it's on so early then.

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BertieBotts · 24/04/2010 20:27

It was on at 9pm, wasn't it? That's what it said on 4od. Or was it repeated, if it was, that is odd.

southeastastra · 24/04/2010 20:32

it was just on 4 at 7

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Celery · 24/04/2010 20:37

I found it really interesting. My Grandad was an ambulance driver during the Blitz. He never ever spoke of it, which was not like him, because he was always full of anecdotes about his life.

sungirltan · 24/04/2010 20:40

we have just watched this. dh was bomb disposal officer in the army. he loved it!!

BertieBotts · 24/04/2010 20:52

Ah, I see, I suppose they assume all the children would be watching BGT?

I know my grandad was a volunteer ARP in Coventry at the age of 12 or 13 and he would go out during air raids to help people, etc. He can't speak about it at all, he was so terrified by the whole experience

Also, my great-aunt lived in Cardiff at the time of the blitz. One day she heard the warning and couldn't get to a shelter in time, so she stood flat against the wall of a house, which was the advised thing to do. She was so frightened that from that day, all her hair grew out white, and it is still white to this day (although she is in her 80s now so it doesn't look unusual).

southeastastra · 24/04/2010 20:54

my mum and dad (and mil) were all children in london during the blitz and they talk about what they saw quite alot, i suppose it was seen differently by the children.

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bluebump · 24/04/2010 21:19

I sky+'d this as my nan often talks about the Blitz as being one of the worst things she has ever witnessed/lived through. She said at one point it looked like the Thames was on fire.

BertieBotts · 24/04/2010 21:26

I suppose that children just accept things as they are, but as an adult/teenager you'd have more of an awareness of the fact that it was quite likely that you would die, be injured or lose a family member/friend at any moment, which especially when you consider that people lived in this state for years, is just unimaginable.

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