Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government’s reliance on ordinary people.
Direction
Frank keeps Worsley moving through ruins like a time-traveling disruptor.
Production
Reconstructed bomb sites feel dangerously, beautifully real.
Director
Emma Frank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Worsley filmed several scenes in actual underground stations where descendants of her subjects still live nearby—some recognized family names.
The 'Blitz spirit' phrase barely existed during the war; it was largely manufactured for morale films and only became common retrospectively in the 1980s Thatcher era.
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