History was told through interviews with various women who shared their personal experiences of the war as young women working in factories, flying in the ATA, entertaining troops, etc. The episode ended with a very moving account from a woman who had dated an African-American soldier. By 1947 she and her mother were alone - her father had been killed in the war - and struggling to find food, very desperate. They went to bed one evening, hungry and at their wits' end, but then the young woman was woken by a knock at the door. It was her American soldier, come back from the USA to marry her! As the elderly woman tells the story she cries, because he was her knight in shining armour, rescuing her and her mother from terrible poverty. And the film ended with a photograph of her and her handsome husband in middle age.
(A much more satisfying ending than Killing Time...)
Lesley
But it's bound to be reshown at some point.
