You wouldn’t necessarily have guessed this from the quality of commemorative programming on TV this week.
You wouldn’t necessarily have guessed this from the quality of commemorative programming on TV this week. But just recently, we’ve marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of an event that used to be considered quite important and interesting. It was called the second world war.
Now that it has been superseded by issues of such seismic significance as climate change, the childhood obesity ‘epidemic’ and Jordan’s on-off marriage to Peter Andre, one can of course fully understand why TV feels unable to give WWII the thorough and respectful coverage it did in the past. Even so, I can’t help feeling that it still deserves a little better than The Week We Went to War (BBC1, all week) and Land Girls (BBC1, all week).
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