Includes DVD, Music CD & Booklet

DVD - 20 mins, Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 2, Format - PAL 
DVD compatibility

CD - 20 Tracks, Running time - 60 mins

Booklet - 20 Pages

Product weight 200g

 

Recall the War years in Music, Newsreel and Words

Produced in association with British Pathe and ITN

DVD

1.Children's Repair Shop: Young Mechanics At Wok (1940)
2. Patching London: Restoring Buildings in the Biltz (1940)
3. Soling and Heeling Tyres: New Treads for Old (1940)
4. Salvage Beach-Combing: Saving Goods from the Sea (1940)
5. Pots and Pans for the War-Effort: Donating Aluminium (1941)
6. Buy Sensible Clothes: Make the Most of Coupons (1942)
7. Sort Your Salvage: Re-Cycling Rubbish (1942)
Make Do And Mend Hats: Stylish Hat from a Trilby (1942)
9. Players At Work: A Bombed Theatre Restored (1945)
10. Old China: Nothing Wasted (1945)
11. Neck News: Homemade Chokers (1945)
12. Handyman Hancock's £82 House: A Home-Made House (1945)
13. Backyard Farmyard: Hoxton Housewife's Self-made Happiness (1946)
14. Coaches into Homes: Old Trains Converted (1946)
15. Soapbox Derby: Children's Home-Made Race (1951)


CD

On CD, enjoy 20 wartime favourites - music and memories.

Running time 60 minutes

1. 1.In The Quartermaster's Stores - Tommy Handley and Ronald Franklin
2. Wartime Public Service Broadcast: Ration Coupons
3. Potato Pete - Bette Driver
4. Hey Little Hen - Joe Loss and His Orchestra
5. We Must All Stick Together - Billy Cotton and His Band
6. The Thing-Ummy-Bob (Thats Going to Win the War) - Arthur Askey
7. Hints on a Blackout - Tommy Handley
8. In Our Village ARP - Norman Long
9. Music While YOu Work - March - Eric Coates and his Symphony Orchestra
10. The War Worker - Cyril Fletcher
11. This Is Worth Fighting For - 'Hutch'
12. You Can't Take the Breed From the British - Western Brothers
13. Albert and His Savings - Stanley Holloway
14. The Munitions Worker - Robb Wilton
15. Be Like the Kettle and Sing - Vera Lynn
16. Wartime Public Service Broadcast: Taking a Bath - Richard Massingham
17. Careless Talk - Stanley Holloway and Leslie Henson
18. I Did What I Could With My Gas Mask - George Formby
19. Rhymes of the Times - Max Bacon with Jack Cooper
20. Five o'Clock Whistle - Harry Roy and His Band

Booklet

An illustrated booklet places the events revealed by the Newsreel and heard on the CD in context, to create a Yesteryear Scrapbook.

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