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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #100 on: September 30, 2019, 12:20:07 AM »
World On Fire: Viewers distressed by 'brutal' battle scenes in WW2 drama

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WORLD ON FIRE kicked off on BBC One tonight and viewers were quick to praise the World War II drama. However some felt the first episode, which focussed on the lead up to the outbreak of war in Poland, contained scenes that were difficult to watch.

 World On Fire follows the fates of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France and Germany during the first year of the Second World War. The seven part drama which stars Helen Hunt and Sean Bean premiered tonight and viewers were quick to praise the new BBC series on social media. However some fans found many of the scenes “brutal” and noted it would be an emotionally draining but compelling series.

The first episode introduced viewers to the lives of Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), a young English translator in Warsaw, Kasia, (Zofia Wichlacz) his Polish girlfriend and waitress, and Lois, (Julia Brown) the factory worker who’s waiting for Harry at home.

As the outbreak of war looked ever more certain, viewers witness a number of chilling scenes.

One particular moment involved Kasia’s dad and brother who joined the efforts of a number of Polish soldiers in Danzig as they resisted German invasion.

The Polish soldiers were trapped in an abandoned building waiting for British support which never came

After the German’s attacked the building, Kasia’s dad bravely surrendered and approached the Nazi’s while waving a white flag.

But he was shot dead by the Nazi’s while his son watched.

Viewers watching the horrific scenes took to social media to comment.

One said: “This is brutal. Best not get attached to any of the characters I suppose #worldonfire.”

Another added: “#WorldOn Fire @BBCOne oh my, so sad and tense.”

“The battle scenes are incredibly well done; brutal and unflinching - and quite hard to watch #WorldoOnFire,” wrote a third.

“Not usually my thing but this looks very promising. Tough watch though. #WorldoOnFire,” said another.

A fifth remarked: “Very hard to watch and it will only get harder but it’s bloody brilliant #WorldOnFire.”

Another tweeted: “Wow, I felt tense watching the whole time. Excellent drama #WorldOnFire.”
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1184279/World-On-Fire-cast-location-Danzig-Helen-Hunt-BBC-video



Viewers praise 'distressing and emotional' new BBC WWII drama World On Fire as series kicks off with dramatic scenes of Polish volunteers fleeing a Gdańsk post office basement after it's set alight with petrol
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Viewers praised Second World War drama World On Fire after its 'distressing and emotional' premiere last night.

The ambitious seven-part BBC1 drama, which follows characters living through the first year of the Second World War, was met with widespread praise for its depiction of events across Europe in the summer and early autumn of 1939.

Among them was the siege of Gdańsk (then Danzig) post office on 1 September, where some 60 Polish volunteers - many of them civilians - held off German troops for 15 hours before being forced out when petrol was poured into the basement - their last stronghold - and set alight.

Scenes showing a man stumbling through the flames on fire and others fleeing for their lives were praised by their accuracy.

The assault was among the first acts of the German invasion, in which Adolf Hitler's troops broke through Polish border crossings and launched naval, air and army attacks on the Westerplatte peninsula in the Bay of Danzig.

 The episode introduced viewers to a string of characters living in the UK, France, Germany and Poland, including an American journalist played by Hollywood actress Helen Hunt and a pacifist Brit played by Sean Bean.

At the centre of the story are Manchester-based factory worker and jazz singer Lois (Julia Brown) and her sweetheart Harry (Jonah Hauer-King), who fell in love with Polish waitress Kasia (Zofia Wichłacz), while working as a translator in Warsaw.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7519967/World-Fire-Scenes-man-fire-leaves-viewers-shocked.html


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The reviews are in! **** The Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent. #WorldOnFire. 
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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #101 on: October 01, 2019, 12:24:01 AM »
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I should've told you that I loved you, when you told me." #WorldOnFire, Sundays on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, starring @juliabrown, @jonahhauerking, @zofiawichlacz, @helenhunt, @sean_bean_official, @yrsadaleyward, @smithespis and @parkersawyers
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WORLD ON FIRE 🔥
LIVE at 17:30 we'll be joined by the cast of @bbcone's new series, @WorldOnFireTV 🔥
With Jonah Hauer-King, @blakeharrison23, @juliabrownactor, Yrsa Daley-Ward & Director Adam Smith 🔥
Watch LIVE ➡️ http://buildseries.com/uk
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World on Fire on BBC First Benelux   Sunday 27 October 21.00
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Cast of 'World on Fire' discuss their amazing BBC TV series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGI1vJ-twfs




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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #102 on: October 03, 2019, 03:28:58 AM »
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“We must love one another, or die.”

The cast of #WorldOnFire perform W.H. Auden’s iconic poem ‘1st September, 1939’. #NationalPoetryDay
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1179652301981540352

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Absolutely loving being in Warsaw for the European Premiere of @WorldOnFireTV at The Polish Vodka Museum. TV and shots, who can complain? 🍸 #WorldOnFire #EpicDrama 
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#worldonfire #premiere #Poland 😍😍😍 
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Getting ready! World on Fire press event in Poland
#worldonfiretv #viasatworld #WoF #epicdrama #series #ww2 #viasatworld #itvstudios #warsaw
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#epicdrama, #worldonfire #premiera #fingerfood #eventyfirmowe #cateringwarszawa #catererslife #partyfood #partytime
 
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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #103 on: October 04, 2019, 01:43:03 AM »
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Amazing Poland launch for #worldonfire #epicdramapoland #mammothscreen - slam dunk 

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Polish actors about the backstage of the international production "World on Fire"
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The seven-episode BBC series "World on Fire" will premiere on November 10, under the Polish title "World on Fire". Polish actors playing in this international production talked about their participation in the series.

 The premiere of the series "World in Fire" will take place on November 10 on the Epic Drama channel. 
https://www.rmfclassic.pl/informacje/Obraz,12/Polscy-aktorzy-o-kulisach-miedzynarodowej-produkcji-World-on-Fire,39167.html


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IMPORTANT BROADCAST 🎙 Hold your loved ones slightly closer this evening, this is Nancy Campbell signing off. #WorldOnFire
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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #104 on: October 05, 2019, 11:36:35 AM »
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Everything that matters to me is here in this city. #WorldOnFire returns to @BBCOne tomorrow at 9pm. 
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1180516581954207744

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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #105 on: October 06, 2019, 12:48:43 AM »
Series 1 - Episode 2   Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One

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Life for Kasia and what remains of her family in Warsaw is brutal and violent, as Nazi tanks roll onto the streets and trigger-happy German soldiers turn on blameless men and women with monstrous cruelty. As Peter Bowker’s epic story of the Second World War unfolds, there are inklings that much worse is to come.

The family living next door to war correspondent Nancy (Helen Hunt) are perpetually anxious and won’t let their young daughter go to school. There are hostile eyes everywhere and informers around every corner as paranoia festers. Meanwhile, in the streets, Jews are routinely taunted and humiliated.

In Britain, Harry returns home to his unbending mum (Lesley Manville at her iciest) as his ex, Lois, prepares to face a new life, singing for the troops with Ensa. None of this will send you to bed whistling, but it’s war and it’s grim.

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In devastated Warsaw, Kasia makes plans to flee with her grief-stricken mother Maria, but gets caught in a resistance cell's attack on German soldiers. Harry returns to Manchester, but when he finally plucks up the courage to tell Lois the truth she disarms him by declaring her love, while Tom shocks Douglas by announcing he is now a conscientious objector. In Berlin, Nancy is frustrated with the growing power of the censor, while Webster and Albert's joy is overshadowed by the growing threat of prejudice they face. 
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jp7vcj/world-on-fire--s1-e2-world-on-fire/


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000970l

https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3364692/14285441/world-on-fire


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Kasia saved her little brother from the bombs of Warsaw. Now she must face the Nazi occupation herself. #WorldOnFire
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1180618670671679488


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“I should’ve told you I loved you when you told me.”

#WorldOnFire tonight at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1180777214146539520






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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #106 on: October 07, 2019, 01:12:38 AM »
World on Fire viewers stunned by "heavy" and "harrowing" scene in the second episode
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BBC One's WWII drama World on Fire returned tonight (October 6) for its second episode and one scene in particular left viewers shellshocked. 
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a29379623/world-on-fire-episode-2-murder-scene/


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In wartime, truth is no longer factual. Sometimes, truth is little more than wishful thinking.” .
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#WorldOnFire continues next week on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, starring @helenhunt, @sean_bean_official, @blakeharrisonreal, @jonahhauerking, @juliabrown and @zofiawichlacz
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Tsf1CH2pR/




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“People wanted to live their normal lives, even though they were not free.”
Growing up in a warzone... a reality in 1939 and around the world today. #WorldOnFire

Big thanks to the cast of #WorldOnFire: @blakeharrison23, @ParkerSawyers, Sean Bean, @YrsaDaleyWard, @juliabrownactor, Zofia Wichłacz and Jonah Hauer-King.
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1181251049694334976

World on Fire: Life For Young People in WWII
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« Reply #107 on: October 09, 2019, 12:02:41 AM »
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To all the Sean fans from the Benelux; World On Fire also starts on BBC First at Sunday October 27th 😉 #worldonfire #bbcfirst #bbcbenelux #seanbean 
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Jonah Hauer-King and Zofia Wichłacz, two of the stars of Peter Bowker’s war drama World on Fire, talk about the tangled relationship between their characters and how the series balances epic action scenes with emotional storylines.
https://dramaquarterly.com/love-and-war/



Man who transformed Wigan for set of BBC epic 'World on Fire' talks about life behind the scenes
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The man who transformed Wigan into a 1940s backdrop for the latest BBC drama “World on Fire” has spoken about life behind the scenes.
Liam O’Hara, who runs O’Hara TV and Film Construction, spent around seven months changing the face of The Old Courts and Kendal Street, as well as buildings across the North West, for the Second World War epic.
 
https://www.wigantoday.net/news/man-who-transformed-wigan-for-set-of-bbc-epic-world-on-fire-talks-about-life-behind-the-scenes-1-10042321

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« Reply #108 on: October 10, 2019, 12:06:00 AM »
  BBC First Australia      World On Fire  Starts Sunday October 13

https://www.bbcstudios.com.au/shows/world-on-fire/

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Sean Bean's big on dad jokes in his portrayal of Douglas Bennett in World on Fire. Watch the new series from Sunday at 8.30pm.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=503217827183588


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« Reply #109 on: October 11, 2019, 04:01:36 AM »
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#WorldOnFire is Coming

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World on Fire premiers on @epicdramabulgaria by
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Disaster lies ahead for the men of the Royal Navy in #WorldOnFire. 
https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/1182616637775794177
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An epic saga across Europe about ordinary lives in a time of war. #WorldOnFire 
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Watch the brilliant @WorldOnFireTV @Raphaeldesprez  @mammothscreen this #Sunday @BBCOne   
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« Reply #110 on: October 12, 2019, 10:40:28 AM »
'My dad didn't see him for many years': Game of Thrones star Sean Bean pays homage to his late grandfather in the new BBC series World On Fire
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He's best known for playing Ned Stark in HBO's medieval fantasy phenomenon, Game Of Thrones.

And on Sunday, British actor Sean Bean opened up about paying homage to his late grandfather in the new BBC First wartime series World On Fire.

Speaking to News Corp, the 60-year-old said he drew on his grandfather's pain from World War II for his character, who has just returned from the war with shell shock.

'My dad didn't see him for many years. He (my grandfather) was a bit shaken by it. He had trouble re-adapting, coming back to civil life,' Sean said.

While his grandfather fortunately managed to overcome his trauma, he said many others were similarly affected by their transition back into society following the war.

The drama, which tells the story of World War II through the lives of everyday people, gives a voice to those who were caught in the most difficult of circumstances.

Sean plays Douglas Bennett, a pacifist working class man in Manchester, who is suffering from post-traumatic stress and the effects of exposure to mustard gas.

The actor explained how immersing himself in the painful stories of post traumatic stress disorder was uncomfortable but necessary when researching his character.

'It wasn't enjoyable dredging those memories up and feeling those thoughts but that's something you have to do to do it justice,' he said.

 The seven-part drama, which also features Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt, follows its characters across several European countries.

Sean said the idea that people 'meet from different places and are thrown together' is a recurring theme throughout the series.

'It tells tales of friendship and love, and love affairs, brutality, and it's very intimate, it's not a retelling of the facts of the war,' he said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7565825/Game-Thrones-Sean-Bean-pays-homage-late-grandfather-BBC-drama-World-Fire.html


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"I want my boy back." #WorldOnFire returns to @BBCOne tomorrow at 9pm.
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« Reply #111 on: October 13, 2019, 01:35:35 AM »
Series 1 - Episode 3   Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One

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War turns lives on their heads, and inevitably too worlds collide, which is the case for embittered former lovers Lois and Harry (Julia Brown and Johan Hauer-King). Harry is with his Army unit in northern France when who should turn up with an Ensa party to entertain the troops but singer Lois.

This is no gushing reunion, though, as Peter Bowker’s taut saga pitches us headfirst into the horrors of combat and the overwhelming sadness of separation, and regret. Meanwhile Lois’s annoying brother Tom (Ewan Mitchell) is in the Navy aboard HMS Exeter, mainly to avoid the attentions of the Manchester police.

He’s an oikish ne’er-do-well, but maybe he’s not the irredeemable boor he seems after he confronts an epic tragedy with bravery and brusque kindness. There’s nothing his pacifist dad (Sean Bean) can do back home but rage at the radio news in despair.

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After enlisting in the Royal Navy, Tom finds himself on board the HMS Exeter in pursuit of German pocket battleship the Graf Spee, and Tom watches the carnage and death around him as a huge naval battle ensues in the South Atlantic. Harry crosses paths with Lois again when she arrives to perform at the BEF base camp in France, while Robina steps in to defend Jan in the playground. In Berlin, Nancy is shocked by rumours of sick children being forcefully taken to clinics and killed and decides to investigate for herself. 
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jqt6xj/world-on-fire--series-1-episode-3/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009f7n

https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3376701/14768260/world-on-fire


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What gives us the right to decide who lives or dies?
A journalist uncovers the shocking Nazi eugenics programme. @HelenHunt #WorldOnFire
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Pretty much sums up tonight’s ep. Can not wait to see this come to life. 
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It’s what we’ve been waiting for! Be sure to tune in for tonight’s episode of #WorldonFire on BBC1 at 9pm featuring #QPHSchester students & #LesleyManville whilst filming in #Handbridge
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Look out for my best friend and my favourite actor @MikeyKCollins in tonight’s #worldonfire at 9pm on @BBCOne he’s doing actings with Sean Bean I’m well jealous
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« Reply #112 on: October 14, 2019, 04:12:25 AM »
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New acquisitions of Mammoth’s World On Fire, which is co-produced with Masterpiece and successfully launched on BBC One in the UK last month with a consolidated audience of over six million, include in China on Huanxi Premium, RTL in Germany, Telefonica in Spain and BBC First across Australia and Benelux, as well as Roadshow in Australia and in Korea on Channel A for linear and KT Corp for SVOD. 
https://www.itvstudios.com/news/itv-studios-global-entertainment-announces-raft-of-scripted-sales-for-new-and-returning-dramas


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« Reply #113 on: October 17, 2019, 06:15:30 AM »
World On Fire’s Peter Bowker: I won’t have WWII rewritten by isolationists
Peter Bowker's new drama World On Fire tells the story of the Second World War from a new perspective. The writer explains how he created an epic series by telling the stories of ordinary people living through extraordinary times – and why he won't accept the rewriting of history for political ends
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Peter Bowker is the award-winning writer of Occupation, Marvellous, Blackpool, Eric and Ernie and The A Word. When he writes a new TV drama, you know it is going to be smart, incisive and infused with sharp wit and engaging characters.

But even Bowker was worried by the scale of his latest television project, World On Fire. The series, which airs on BBC1 on Sunday nights, is an attempt to tell the story of the Second World War in a new way. Quite a challenge for the most dramatised conflict in history.

Bowker’s inspirations were two-fold. The classic 1970s series World At War, narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, widely seen as the definitive documentary on the Second World War, was a touchstone. Could a television drama be equally definitive? But Bowker was also inspired by recent TV trends.

The success of Danish shows The Killing and The Bridge, particularly, suggested audiences were now more willing to engage with subtitled shows – meaning he could tell this global war from a global perspective, in multiple languages.

The result is stunning. Rather than Churchill and Hitler’s speeches, Spitfires dueling, Vera Lynn and the spirit of the Blitz – a version of history we’ve seen countless times – Bowker focuses on people across Europe whose lives were irrevocably affected by this global conflict. Through these brilliantly drawn characters a new picture emerges of the impact on the ordinary people living through extraordinary times.

And we have only just begun. For the grand plan is seven series, each telling the story of a single year of the Second World War from multiple perspectives. We spoke to Bowker about his most ambitious series to date…

Is this the perfect time to tell this story of the international conflict that eventually led to long-term peace in Europe?

The perfect time might have been a couple of years ago! But I think we constantly need to remind ourselves that it is a story about international co-operation to defeat Nazism. A group of countries with very little in common politically formed an alliance because they knew they had more in common than what set us apart. That is what World War Two was. And I won’t have it rewritten. Because it is insulting to the memory of everybody if you go along with the ‘plucky Britain’ myth. I know what my dad thought he was fighting for – and it wasn’t isolationism. He fought alongside Gurkhas, soldiers in the Far East, alongside all nationalities. And he never forgot that.

How do you get beyond the received wisdom about the war to the on the floor reality?

I’m normally interested in people at the bottom of the food chains – on the sharp end of political decisions, enacting these decisions whether they are right or not. The Imperial War Museum have been amazing. At one point I went in and said: One of my characters is a Polish waitress in her 20s. Have you got anything? Within three days, they had found two diaries that had been translated. What was reassuring was that there would be a page saying I have joined the resistance movement run by the old scoutmaster. But the rest would be about boys and coffee.

 In a weird way, Andrew Davies’s War and Peace adaptation opened it up for me. I could see how you could be both part of history and not deny the history, but simultaneously get stuck into the day to day concerns, falling in and out of love, having children, people dying, people being traumatized, people having a disability.

How did you go about building the story of this massive global conflict from the intimate stories you chose?

One of the first things I did was to invent a character, played by Sean Bean, who is a pacifist. Because to keep the conscientious objector argument sustained during the Second World War is the hardest challenge. It is the least equivocal war of all time. But then you have a story – because you have events pushing against this man and his beliefs. And you have his two children taking up different positions to him. So you also have a father-daughter and father-son story. I am interested in reclaiming that generation from keeping them in aspic. It is far more interesting if they are flawed human beings.

Sex wasn’t invented in 1963 and all that…

Exactly, so it is reclaiming that generation as flesh and blood human beings – and I think that is honouring them far more than idealising them as some special generation we revere. Another starting point was a desire not just to tell a white man’s war [retrieves photograph from his bag].

This is my grandma and this is my Auntie Anna. They had a musical duo called the Two Shades and toured Manchester and the north west. She was the daughter of a French variety artist and an American – somebody told me she had the same genetic make-up as Jimi Hendrix. But she was adopted by a white family and raised in Doncaster in the 1920s. Her and my grandma had this variety performers called The Two Shades, which preceded Two Tone by, what, 50 years? So there is a singer and a dual race couple in World On Fire.

We always look for contemporary relevance – with the Second World War being invoked so often in the political debate at the moment, what are you hoping people take from it?

The Second World War is evoked so often in very un-nuanced arguments. Our national myth is based on it. So it is healthy to look at that and say ‘My version of the war isn’t the same as yours’. I would hope is that the contemporary relevance is to do with the big questions – at what stage do you make a stand? At what stage do you compromise in order to achieve a greater good? And I am talking not necessarily about political decisions, but personal decisions. The other thing is the irony that for women, in particular, the war being one of the great moments of liberation. I want to mark the social changes that it brought about, the unintended consequences I guess.

How does the international nature of the drama – telling stories in Warsaw, Paris, Berlin, Manchester – help your mission to change our perspective on the war?

The advantage of writing an international drama is that the war started for a lot of other people, including Poland and France, a lot earlier. So it has been a joy to honour that struggle. I knew I was going to tell the story of Danzig and Warsaw in the first episode (above). So although we might be writing through a British lens, we are also reminding people that the Poles had a fairly major part to play in that war for us. Neither the British nor the French went in when the Poles were under the impression that we would. The siege of Warsaw happened soon after that. The German occupation pretty soon after that.

We’ve never seen Sean Bean like this – his is quite a performance as a survivor of the First World War with PTSD who is now a pacifist…

He rang me and one of the things that swung it for him is that he wanted to make sure he didn’t die. But no, I wanted a man who looked physically powerful and had a powerful presence. Because the cliché of men with post-traumatic stress from the First World War would be played by somebody like Tom Courtenay, who is thin and nervy and neurotic. I wanted us to be able to see the man he had been before he was traumatised.

It comes down to the heroism of people who have mental illness in their day to day life. I am interested in where that for him is as much of an emotional need as well as a political need, in order to reclaim a version of his masculinity. People forget how relatively mainstream that was.
https://www.bigissue.com/culture/film-tv-radio/world-on-fires-peter-bowker-i-wont-have-wwii-rewritten-by-isolationists/


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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #114 on: October 19, 2019, 09:40:07 AM »
Clip from World on Fire  Episode 4

"Hold firm and drop back"
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The battalion wait for orders, Harry gives the advance and as they head toward the building they are fired upon by a machine gun.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07rffzd


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"I'll never be safe anywhere." #WorldOnFire returns to @BBCOne tomorrow at 9pm. 
https://twitter.com/WorldOnFireTV/status/1185607916038082560

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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #115 on: October 20, 2019, 01:24:30 AM »
Series 1 - Episode 4  Today 9pm - 10pm BBC One

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The iron has entered young Kasia’s (Zofia Wichlacz) soul after the murder of her parents and she is honey-trapping Nazi soldiers, luring them to grubby corners of Warsaw where they are murdered by her resistance fellows. But when she picks a high-profile target, an SS officer, the consequences are appalling.

Back in England, conscientious objector Douglas Bennett (Sean Bean) can’t even give away copies of his dratted Peace News, though that’s the least of his worries as his children skitter off the rails. Lois is pregnant and his son Tom arrives home with a difficult proposition for his dad.

As the war escalates in Peter Bowker’s absorbing drama, the sense that things cannot ever possibly be the same again becomes more acute, as characters face life-altering decisions with irrevocable consequences. For Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) leading a unit through Belgium, it means growing up and becoming a leader.

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Harry and his unit are fighting for their lives in the town of Louvain, Belgium, where the German forces far outnumber those of the Allies. Grzegorz and Konrad are woken by a German troop, while back in Warsaw Kasia and Tomasz's resistance activity has horrific consequences. Webster is shocked to learn more about the rise of anti-Semitism in Paris when a Jewish couple come seeking his help. 
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/jrmqvz/world-on-fire--series-1-episode-4/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009n09

https://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail/3386734/15121239/world-on-fire



World on Fire: Britain’s Poles hope war drama will help reclaim their past
Polish Londoners longing for a more accurate portrayal of their country’s history take stock of the epic BBC series
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On a Saturday night, a large and expectant audience turned up to a preview screening of the BBC’s seven-part war drama World on Fire at a Polish community centre in west London. After decades of waiting to see their country’s second world war story told, Polish Londoners gathered to see whether the producers had succeeded in faithfully capturing history.

The centre – known as “Posk” – its Polish acronym – was built in the 1970s from donations made by a generation of Poles who had experienced the war first hand, and thus it made an appropriate setting. Even if slightly dated now, it remains a meeting point for Poles in Britain, and runs a busy programme of cultural events, a drop-in centre helping the community to prepare for Brexit. It offers, too, some of the best pierogi in London.

Many of those in the audience for the first episode were relatives of about 175,000 Poles who settled in the UK during and after the second world war. Wiktor Moszczyński, chairman of the Friends of Polish Veterans Association, knows their stories better than most. Born in London a year after the war, he is a tireless campaigner for greater inclusion of the Polish historical narrative and an organiser of a Polish contingent at the annual Remembrance Sunday Cenotaph march.

“For the few remaining veterans, watching supposedly realistic war films is never easy as the memory of what actually happened is painful and horrific,” he says.

 But while Moszczyński concedes that “the Poles can be pernickety about their history” and picks up on minor errors in World on Fire, he concludes that Polish audiences “will undoubtedly take some satisfaction in the way it shows Poland’s gruesome experience and sense of betrayal by Britain”.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/20/world-on-fire-bbc-war-drama-polish-londoners-epic-series-relcima-their-past


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“How does it feel to be a target?” The war in Nazi-occupied France exceeded far beyond the battlegrounds. #WorldOnFire
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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #116 on: October 22, 2019, 10:43:25 AM »
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340,000 troops evacuated. 84,000 vehicles abandoned. 900 ships involved. 77,000 tonnes of ammunition lost.
#WorldOnFire continues with The Evacuation of Dunkirk, Sunday at 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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Re: World On Fire
« Reply #117 on: October 23, 2019, 01:48:22 AM »
Has Sean Bean only appeared in 2 out of the 4 episodes so far?

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« Reply #118 on: October 23, 2019, 02:42:58 AM »
Has Sean Bean only appeared in 2 out of the 4 episodes so far?

No Sean Bean appeared in all episodes so far. :thumbsup:

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« Reply #119 on: October 23, 2019, 04:02:36 AM »
K, thats good! Thanks for responding. I was confused because IMDB says episode 1 and 4 only. I haven't been able to view it yet here in Canada.