World on Fire

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Three young people are in the eye of the storm as World War II explodes around them.

Three young people are in the eye of the storm as World War II explodes around them. Nothing can survive unchanged. Not even love. Starring Lesley Manville and Jonah Hauer-King.

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Julia Brown

Jonah Hauer-King

Parker Sawyers

Brian J Smith

Helen Hunt

Zofia Wichlacz

Tomasz Kot

Jonathan McGuinness

Lesley Manville

Peter Bowker

Adam Smith

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World on Fire: Series 1: Episode 1

Episode 1

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When war breaks, translator Harry Chase vows to help his Polish lover Kasia flee Warsaw.

When war breaks, translator Harry Chase vows to help his Polish lover Kasia flee Warsaw, but how will he explain this to his sweetheart Lois, waiting for him at home in Manchester?

As the threat of the Nazi regime looms large over Europe, translator Harry Chase vows to help his Polish lover Kasia flee Warsaw, but how will he explain this to his sweetheart Lois, waiting for him at home in Manchester?

Meanwhile, American journalist and broadcaster Nancy Campbell is at the Polish-German border, making a grisly discovery. In Paris, surgeon Webster O’Connor finds the distant threat of war on his doorstep as he falls for French-African jazz musician Albert Fallou, who has been beaten up by the Action Francaise mob. 


World on Fire: Series 1

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Three young people are in the eye of the storm as World War II explodes around them. Nothing can survive unchanged. Not even love.

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