<p>From North Africa, back to Britain and then through Europe, Letters of Love in WW2 tells a unique story of the Second World War from the perspective of two real people that lived through it.</p><p> </p><p>Three months after they wed, Cyril and Olga Mowforth found themselves separated by the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1946, their love was kept alive on the pages of a thousand letters and postcards, found decades later by their family after they had both passed on. With their family’s poignant and emotional interviews bookending each episode and featuring the voices of <em>Mr Bates vs The Post Office</em> and <em>Downton Abbey</em>’s Amy Nuttall and <em>Afropean</em> author and broadcaster Johny Pitts, <a href="https://www.history.co.uk/shows/letters-of-love-in-ww2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Letters of Love in WW2</a> gives an incredible first-hand insight into what it was like to live through this tumultuous period.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Extra: Memories of Cyril and Olga | 2020-08-25 | ||
| Extra: The importance of the letters to the family | 2020-08-18 | ||
| Extra: The family on Cyril and Olga's wartime experiences | 2020-05-07 | ||
| 8. VE Day: Grief and Relief | 2019-07-25 | ||
| 7. Bergen-Belsen: Sorrow and Shock | 2019-07-18 | ||
| 6. Germany: On the Approach | 2019-07-11 | ||
| 5. D-Day: Visitations | 2019-07-04 | ||
| 4. El Alamein: Silence and Roses | 2019-06-27 | ||
| 3. Siege of Tobruk: Battlefields and Reality | 2019-06-20 | ||
| 2. North Africa: Lost Messages | 2019-06-13 | ||
| 1. At Sea: Optimistic Goodbyes | 2019-06-06 | ||
| The history of the Second World War told through one couple's letters | 2019-05-23 |