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Date Posted: 03:11:14 04/19/07 Thu
THE WORKERS’ FINEST HOUR
Working towards victory 1939 - 1945
A Testimony Films production for ITV WEST/SOUTH WEST
Hi,
I am currently researching a new commemorative six part television series that will be broadcast next year. The Workers’ Finest Hour will be a tribute to all the men and women who worked on the Home Front in the South West during the Second World War.
I am writing to ask whether you can help in locating people in the area over the age of 80 who would have memories of working during WWII?
Additionally, I have included a draft version of my appeal below which outlines our project. I am right at the start of the project so any calls would be purely for research, and all calls are confidential if anyone wanted to contact me. Any help in the form of individuals, organisations or even information about civilian workers during this time would be greatly appreciated and please do contact me if you have any questions or comments.
Best Wishes,
Laura George
Researcher
Testimony Films
laura.george@testimonyfilms.com
www.testimonyfilms.com
12 Great George St, Bristol, BS1 5RH
tel: 0117 925 8589
fax: 0117 925 8589
Were you working during WWII?
Testimony Films, a Bristol television company, is making a commemorative six part series about men and women who worked on the Home Front during the Second World War in the South West - "The Worker's Finest Hour". I would like to hear from anyone who lived or worked in the West Country (Bath, Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire) with a story to tell especially if you were working in the following industries:
On the land - (land girls, forestry workers, farmers)
By the sea - (dockers, around the harbour, fisherman)
Railways - (firemen, conductors, drivers)
Mines - (miners, bevin boys),
If you have exciting, interesting or poignant experiences of working for your country during the war please contact me, Laura George on 0117 925 8589, email - laura.george@testimonyfilms.com or write to me at Testimony Films, 12 Great George St, Bristol BS1 5RH.
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Testimony Films is one of Britain's leading television history companies, run by noted Oral Historian Dr Steve Humphries (Vice President of the Oral History Society - dedicated to the preservation of people's memories).
Many Testimony series like "Veterans: Last Survivors of the Great War" (BBC1), "Forbidden Britain" (BBC2), and "The 50s and 60s in Living Colour" (ITV1), have received critical acclaim, high ratings and have won major national and international awards including the Royal Television Society Best Documentary, The BFI Archive Film Award, and The Chicago Film Festival Gold Hugo.
We have made a number of series and programmes about social change in Britain: "Love Child" (ITV1), and the World Wars: "Britain's Boy Soldiers", "Horror on the Home Front" (Channel 4) as well as covering international events "The Man who Predicted 9/11", "9/11: Miracle of Stairwell B" (Channel 4/History Channel), additionally series dedicated to our local region, and the countryside (Yesterday's Children (ITV West 2007) The West at War (ITV West) Green and Pleasant Land (Channel 4). For further information, visit our website www.testimonyfilms.com
Laura George
Production Co-Ordinator
Testimony Films
laura.george@testimonyfilms.com
www.testimonyfilms.com
12 Great George St, Bristol, BS1 5RH
tel: 0117 925 8589
fax: 0117 925 8589
Laura George
Production Co-Ordinator
Testimony Films
laura.george@testimonyfilms.com
www.testimonyfilms.com
12 Great George St, Bristol, BS1 5RH
tel: 0117 925 8589
fax: 0117 925 8589
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