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Turn Back Time: The Family

Turn Back Time: The Family: Episode 2

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The Family

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The three families experience family life during the Interwar years.

Three families experience family life during the Interwar years. They experience the highs of the "roaring twenties", followed by the lows of the Great Depression.

In this episode, the families are put through the mill as they experience family life during the Interwar years. They experience the highs of the "roaring twenties", followed by the lows of the Great Depression and its catastrophic effect on British economy. 

The Taylor family lead a life of leisure in an upper class household, waited on by servants, a chauffeur and a nanny; but the good times are soon brought to an end with the Wall Street Crash. 

Living as a working class family, the Meadows start on a high with better pay and working conditions, but are soon forced to resort to desperate measures. 

Meanwhile, the Golding family are relieved to be relatively unscathed by the economic downturn and spend the era steadily improving their lot. That is, until Ian Golding is presented with some devastating truths about the 1930s lives his ancestors were forced to lead as Jews living in London's East End.

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Three families experience life across five different eras of British history.

Exploring what it means to be a mother, father and child in British society today and throughout 100 years of change, as three modern families experience life across five eras of British life

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