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Remembrance series honouring heroes both on the battlefield and the home front.

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The People Remember: Series 3

Sophie Raworth

JJ Chalmers

Matthew Pinsent

Chetham's School of Music Orchestra

Sian Price

Roger Farrant

The People Remember: Series 3: Episode 2: The Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme

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Episode 2: The Battle of the Somme

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BBC One - The People Remember, Series 3, The Battle of the Somme

Olympic rower Matthew Pinsent reveals stories of his relatives who were killed during WWI.

Series honouring heroes from conflicts past and present. Olympic rower Matthew Pinsent reveals stories of his three great-uncles, who were killed during WWI.

Former Olympic rower Sir Matthew Pinsent joins Sophie Raworth and injured veteran JJ Chalmers at the Imperial War Museum in London. Matthew reveals stories of his three great-uncles, all of whom were killed during the First World War - on the Somme, at Gallipoli and during an aerial dogfight.

The son and great-grandson of one of the youngest officers to fight on the Somme return to the battlefield to walk in his footsteps, and at the Battle Back Centre in the midlands, a helicopter technician opens up to the group about her fight back to fitness.

Matthew Pinsent reads a farewell letter from a Somme soldier killed on the first day of battle, and Sophie takes in a new museum exhibition celebrating a century of war films.

Ending the show is a performance by the orchestra of Chetham's School of Music, playing a specially composed score to the first ever feature-length documentary from the front line in 1916.

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Series honouring heroes from conflicts past and present.

Sophie Raworth and former Royal Marine JJ Chalmers present a series honouring heroes on the front line and the home front from conflicts past and present.

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