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How the UK has responded to moments of adversity and crisis, from the Blitz to Covid-19.

As Covid-19 presents the UK with its biggest challenge since the Second World War, Sophie Raworth looks at how we have responded to adversity in the past.

As the UK faces its biggest challenge since the Second World War, Sophie Raworth looks at how we have responded to adversity in the past.

Using a combination of wartime archive and contemporary news footage from right across the UK, each episode looks at the impact of Covid-19 on families, communities and businesses, and compares how the nation has responded to crisis now and then.

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How the coronavirus pandemic has revived our national spirit, with the whole country pulling together to support the NHS.

The coronavirus crisis has revived our national spirit. As we did during the Second World War, families, friends and neighbours have pulled together, communities have united in the face of adversity, and our support for each other, and especially for NHS frontline staff, has strengthened. This episode looks back at the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

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