Sapphire and Steel

What happens when you combine the First World War with a 1970s cult sci-fi classic?

This month we watched ‘Assignment 2’ from the television series Sapphire & Steel which features a ghostly First World War soldier haunting an abandoned railway station. Along the way we discuss differing approaches to sacrifice, the idea of an ‘unjust’ death, and where the show sits on our ongoing ‘creepy’ list.

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Can a crime novel help us understand the long shadow cast by the First World War? In this episode of Oh! What

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What happens when a classic Agatha Christie story is reimagined with the memory of war lingering behind it?

For King and Country

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Was patriotism in the First World War really shared by all, or was it shaped and enforced from above?