The Evacuees
The Evacuees
At the beginning of the Second World War four million young children were evacuated from British cities into the countryside. In this documentary from 1969, some of them look back on their experiences, with theatre director and actor Jonathan Miller, broadcaster Michael Aspel and cartoonist Mel Caiman among them
The Evacuees airs on BBC Four HD at 10:15 PM, Sunday 14 December. (Subtitles.)
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General
BS Johnson
Director
Lorna Pegram
Producer