Last Voices of World War 1
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The Last Voices of World War 1 was a six part series screened on The History Channel
in the UK from Sunday 9th November 2008 to Sunday 14th December 2008 with a repeat during the week. Its initial episode was screened on Remembrance Sunday
2008. The series was made by Testimony Films.
The show featured interviews shot by Steve Humphries and Richard van Emden
in the early 1990s
with many of the then surviving veterans who were, at that stage, well into their 90s. All of these veterans have subsequently died.
Harry Patch
appeared in episodes 4 and 6, Henry Allingham
appeared in episode 4.
The series was narrated by the actress Nimmy March
.
The series was screened by Channel 4
in the UK daily from the 2nd November 2009.
The music for this series is called "Passage of Time" and was written by Terry Devine-King. It is available to purchase from audionetworkplc.com.
The History Channel
History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...
in the UK from Sunday 9th November 2008 to Sunday 14th December 2008 with a repeat during the week. Its initial episode was screened on Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday
In the United Kingdom, 'Remembrance Sunday' is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November Armistice Day. It is the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m...
2008. The series was made by Testimony Films.
- 9th November 2008 - The Call to Arms
- 16th November 2008 - The Battle of the Somme
- 23rd November 2008 - Saving the Wounded
- 30th November 2008 - Horror in the Mud
- 7th December 2008 - The Home Front
- 14th December 2008 - The Boys of 1918
The show featured interviews shot by Steve Humphries and Richard van Emden
Richard Van Emden
Richard van Emden is a British author and television documentary producer who specialises in the First World War. Born in Nottingham in 1965, Van Emden specialises in first-person testimonies of people who lived through World War I....
in the early 1990s
1990s
File:1990s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space after it was taken up in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields and the USA Lexie in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War; The signing of the Oslo Accords on...
with many of the then surviving veterans who were, at that stage, well into their 90s. All of these veterans have subsequently died.
Harry Patch
Harry Patch
Henry John "Harry" Patch , known in his latter years as "the Last Fighting Tommy", was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War...
appeared in episodes 4 and 6, Henry Allingham
Henry Allingham
Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world...
appeared in episode 4.
The series was narrated by the actress Nimmy March
Nimmy March
Lady Naomi Burke , known as Nimmy March, is a British actress.Her biological parents were a black South African father and white English mother. She was brought up and adopted by Earl and Countess of March and Kinrara, now the Duke and Duchess of Richmond...
.
The series was screened by Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
in the UK daily from the 2nd November 2009.
The music for this series is called "Passage of Time" and was written by Terry Devine-King. It is available to purchase from audionetworkplc.com.