Includes DVD, Music CD & Booklet

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

CD - 16 tracks, Running time - 44 mins

Booklet - 20 Pages

Product weight 180g

 

Recall the Post-War years in Music, Newsreel and Words

DVD

Rationing lasted nearly ten years after the end of WWII. Every person who lived in Britain from 1940 until 1954 was affected.

On DVD see and hear the way men, women and children coped with life in the post-war period during a time when they had expected to live like victors instead of facing little but denial.

1. Civil Defence Equipment Sell-Off West-End Fashion Show (1945)
2. Food Minister Sir Ben Smith Explains (1946)
3.Women Protest at BreadRationing (1946)
4.Eire's Abundance of Food (1946)
5. Britain's Breadline (1946)
6. Is Britain Starving? (1947)
7.Banana Swapped for Toy Soldiers (1947)
8. Protest at Withdrawal of Petrol Ration (1947)
9.Motoring Back on Ration (1948)
10. Harold Wilson Speaks on Clothing (1948)
11. Mrs Richardson's Anger at Controls (1948)
12. Britain Lights Up (1949)
13. Mr & Mrs O'Hare and Their 16 Children (1950)
14. Lights Out in London (1951)
15. Meat Ration - Housewives Complain (1951)
 

CD

On CD,enjoy 16 of the most cherished recordings of the time.

Running time 44.17 minutes

1.Ration Blues - Louis Jordan
2.Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
3. Hey Good Looking - Jo Stafford & Frankie Lane
4. Shortnin' Bread - Fats Waller
5. Candy & Coke - Arthur Godfrey
6. Best Things in Life Are Free - Leslie Hutch Hutchinson
7. If I had a Penny - Rosemary Clooney
8. A Penny a Kiss, A Penny a Hug - The Andrews Sisters
9. Yes We Have No Bananas - Louis Prima
10. When Can I Have a Banana Again - Harry Roy
11. You Can't Get That No More - Louis Jordan
12. There Won't Be a Shortage of Love - Peggy Lee
13. Fish Seller - Humphrey Lyttleton
14. Pickin' a Chicken - Eva Boswell
15. I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts - Billy Cotton & His Band
16. Rags to Riches - Tony Bennett

Booklet

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

All our DVDs will play on UK equipment. If you are outside the UK please check the specification above and compatibility page to make sure that it will play on your equipment