with Rene Cutforth who casts a fresh eye on some familiar events of The Forties and gives us many original views on Britain during and after the second World War. With the help of popular music, film, poetry and unusual archive of the time, he looks behind the military battles of the war to uncover how we coped with child evacuation, produced the Home Guard, absorbed the American invasion and put up with rationing and Lord Woolton Pie - and later, saw the arrival of spivs, existentialism, the New Look and the National Health.