BLITZ SPIRIT WITH LUCY WORSLEY

BBC1, 8.30pm

NEVER one to take anything at face value, historian Lucy Worsley wants to know if ‘Blitz spirit’, a benchmark of Britishness, is actually true.

We may see ‘Keep calm and carry on’ on mugs and tea towels these days, but are Brits really as resilient as we like to believe? What was living through the Blitz really like? And what’s been conveniently forgotten?

In this feature-length docu-drama, Lucy, inset, explores the lives of six real people, who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz 80 years ago, when Britain was under attack from German bombs.

Archive footage as well as actors reading powerful firsthand accounts bring to life the stories.