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Opposite Children at Birmingham’s Moor Street railway station, September 1939. Millions of British city children were evacuated to safer locations during World War II. above The series was narrated by Laurence Olivier, recorded between productions at the National Theatre, at which he was then Director. He hated the work.

Fifty years of The World at War

Half a century on, the most comprehensive series ever made about the Second World War is still being shown on television channels around the globe. Taylor Downing takes a critical look.