A series of 13 programmes
Written and presented by Robert Kee

Nearly a million men, women and children died in the great potato famine which devastated Ireland between 1845 and 1849. Another million emigrated, mainly to America. The British Government's attempts to help proved largely ineffectual.
The seeds were thus sown of a deep and lasting bitterness against the British, which was to have a profound effect on the later development of Irish Nationalist feeling. Through the words of eyewitnesses Famine is an account of this watershed in Irish history.