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Sophie Raworth and former Royal Marine JJ Chalmers present a selection of highlights from 2016's episodes of The People Remember.

November 2016
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Anneka Rice discovers that her father helped to defend the city of Hull from German bombs during the Second World War.
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Sir Tony Robinson talks of his passion for remembrance, shares stories of his RAF parents, who kept up morale as wartime entertainers, and is surprised by the facts behind his grandfather's medals won in the merchant navy in both world wars.
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Countryfile's Helen Skelton hears about her grandfather's exploits during the Second World War in campaigns that took him as far as Africa and Italy.
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Former Olympic rower Sir Matthew Pinsent joins Sophie Raworth and injured veteran JJ Chalmers at the Imperial War Museum in London. Matthew reveals stories of his three great-uncles, all of whom were killed during the First World War - on the Somme, at Gallipoli and during an aerial dogfight.
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Sophie Raworth and former Royal Marine JJ Chalmers, who was badly injured in Afghanistan, are at the Imperial War Museum in London paying tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in conflicts past and present.
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On Remembrance Sunday, Sophie Raworth and Andy Torbet present highlights from a week of programmes from the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in Cambridgeshire. The series includes stories of courage and sacrifice from both the battlefield and the home front. Special guests include 'Hairy Biker' Si King, former Dragon's Den b...
November 6, 2015 of the TV-show The People Remember was broadcast by BBC1 on Friday 6 November 2015 at 9:15.
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Former Dragons' Den businessman Duncan Bannatyne views rare documents which shed light on his father's experiences as a prisoner of war in the Far East. Presenters Sophie Raworth and Andy Torbet are also joined by a veteran who endured years of forced labour in the same prison camps as Duncan's dad.
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EastEnders actress June Brown shares her wartime memories, from being an evacuee to seeing Coventry go up in flames after German raids.
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Journalist John Sergeant joins Sophie Raworth and former Army Officer Andy Torbet at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in Cambridgeshire. The site was an important airbase during the Battle of Britain and John has a fascination with the heroic men and women who risked their lives in the skies.
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The People Remember returns with a second series honouring heroes of war, both on the battlefield and on the home front. All week, Sophie Raworth and former army officer Andy Torbet present from the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
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In the last of this series of Remembrance programmes, Sophie Raworth and former army officer Andy Torbet are joined by special guest Johnson Beharry VC. The father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan is reunited with the comrades who tried to save his son's life, the widow of a Falklands hero reveals how she finally found p...
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Sophie Raworth and former army officer Andy Torbet have a surprise for Falklands veteran Simon Weston. They reveal information about his grandfather who repaired aircraft during both world wars. Plus a soldier who lost his arm in a Taliban attack is reunited with the surgeon who changed his life, the inspiring story of two...
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Kate Adie joins Sophie Raworth and former army officer Andy Torbet at the Imperial War Museum in London to celebrate the heroic men and women who risked their lives on the home front. Seventy years on from the Second World War a former munitions worker returns to the factory in which she narrowly escaped death. Plus a big ...
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Special guest Chris Tarrant reveals the incredible act of bravery that won his Father a Military Cross, a grandfather is identified in a WWI propaganda postcard and 70 years after D-Day, Normandy veterans come together for one last time before laying their standard to rest. Plus a stirring performance from D-Day veteran an...
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In the first of a new series, Sophie Raworth and former army officer Andy Torbet honour heroes of war, both on the battlefield and the home front. Joining them at the newly refurbished Imperial War Museum in London is award-winning author of War Horse and former evacuee, Michael Morpurgo.
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