Blitz Spirit With Lucy Worsley

Tuesday, BBC1, 8.30pm

As the world d battles the coronavirus, , w what better ti time to look b back to the Blitz, when Britain last suffered m mass loss of li life and tr traumatic daily aily uncertainty? In a hard-hitting documentary, historian Lucy Worsley (above) digs into the suffering and resilience of ordinary people during the months from September 1940 to May 1941, when more than 44,000 civilians were killed. Drawing on diaries and the records that were collated in the Mass Observation Project, accompanied by astonishing film footage, Worsley tells the stories of six people caught up in the horrors of war, at a time when no one knew how long the nation’s agonies would last.