A series of eight films about Britain from 1945 to 1951. 2:Making Do
My dream after the war was to buy a quarter-pound block of milk chocolate and eat it all up myself, all at one go. I didn't care if I would be sick.
(VERA MATHER, housewife)
The first years of peace don't bring the longed-for treats. If anything, life gets harder. There is more rationing and more queuing. Snoek, whalemeat, and even a roast beaver, enter the British diet. The black market flourishes and so does the spiv. But people are growing tired of controls. Protest is led by a respectable but militant group - the Housewives' League.
Film editor CHRISTOPHER HALE Producer PETER GRIMSDALE Executive producer
ANGELA HOLDSWORTH
Book, Now the War is Over,
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