BBC One 2010 1 season 3 eps Ended

Dig 1940

Name: Dig 1940
Genre: Documentary

2010 1 season 3 eps

Season 1

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30 min

S1 · E1 · Dec 15, 2010

Battle of France and Dunkirk Episode 1

Jules and his team are in France digging up crashed German aircraft from the opening months of World War Two, accompanied by an RAF fighter pilot who saw action there in 1940. A Dunkirk veteran recounts the horrors of the evacuation, while Jules makes some revealing finds on the beaches of Dunkirk - poignant reminders of Britain's most perilous year.

30 min

S1 · E2 · Dec 22, 2010

Battle of Britain Episode 2

Jules Hudson and his team are off the Isle of Wight diving on HMS Borealis, a ship from Convoy Peewit, sunk in the opening stages of the Battle of Britain. With unseen colour film from 1940, Jules tells the hearbreaking story of two pilots killed in the Battle of Britain, and the glamorous woman at the centre of both their lives. The team head to Chesil beach as they attempt to recover the remains of an RAF Hurricane fighter plane shot down in August 1940, at the height of the battle.

30 min

S1 · E3 · Dec 29, 2010

The Blitz Episode 3

Jules Hudson and his team are in Somerset, trying to recover the remains of a German bomber shot down on a raid on Bristol during World War Two. After speaking to his father, a survivor of the 1940 London Blitz, Jules travels north to Hull and meets witnesses of the Hull Blitz. There, he sees the remains of a city where 95% of houses were damaged or destroyed by German bombers.

3 episodes in Season 1

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To mark the 70th anniversary of 1940, presenter and archaeologist Jules Hudson goes on a journey of discovery into Britain's darkest and, in the words of Winston Churchill, 'finest hour'.

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Total runtime 1h 30m · Episode length 30 min · Type Miniseries

Show info

Premiered

December 15, 2010

Final episode

December 29, 2010

Status

Ended

Network

BBC One

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Miniseries

Episode length

30 min

Total runtime

1h 30m

Original language

English

Production

360 Production

Production

United Kingdom

Produced in

Languages

Spoken on screen

English

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