For six Christmases, Britain was dark, families were apart and good cheer was in short supply. Forty years on from the last wartime Christmas, Dr Christopher Andrew looks back at those bittersweet times and the radio programmes that kept Britain smiling through: morale boosters from Churchill's speeches to Workers' Playtime, the comedy of ITMA and Gert and Daisy, the sentiment of Issy Bonn and Vera Lynn.
BBC Manchester