Letters of Love in WW2

A podcast by Sky HISTORY

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12 Episodes

  1. Extra: Memories of Cyril and Olga

    Published: 8/25/2020
  2. Extra: The importance of the letters to the family

    Published: 8/18/2020
  3. Extra: The family on Cyril and Olga's wartime experiences

    Published: 5/7/2020
  4. 8. VE Day: Grief and Relief

    Published: 7/25/2019
  5. 7. Bergen-Belsen: Sorrow and Shock

    Published: 7/18/2019
  6. 6. Germany: On the Approach

    Published: 7/11/2019
  7. 5. D-Day: Visitations

    Published: 7/4/2019
  8. 4. El Alamein: Silence and Roses

    Published: 6/27/2019
  9. 3. Siege of Tobruk: Battlefields and Reality

    Published: 6/20/2019
  10. 2. North Africa: Lost Messages

    Published: 6/13/2019
  11. 1. At Sea: Optimistic Goodbyes

    Published: 6/6/2019
  12. The history of the Second World War told through one couple's letters

    Published: 5/23/2019

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From North Africa, back to Britain and then through Europe, Letters of Love in WW2 tells a unique story of the Second World War from the perspective of two real people that lived through it. Three months after they wed, Cyril and Olga Mowforth found themselves separated by the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1946, their love was kept alive on the pages of a thousand letters and postcards, found decades later by their family after they had both passed on. With their family’s poignant and emotional interviews bookending each episode and featuring the voices of Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Downton Abbey’s Amy Nuttall and Afropean author and broadcaster Johny Pitts, Letters of Love in WW2 gives an incredible first-hand insight into what it was like to live through this tumultuous period. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.