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First Aired: November 26th, 2021
Status: Continuing
Network: Channel 5
Summary: For the first time, the Imperial War Museum has allowed cameras behind the scenes. This strand uncovers rarely heard first-hand accounts, and reveals the pressure faced by hundreds of IWM experts and volunteers as they work to preserve the most important objects and stories from our wartime past.
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Season 1
Episode 1: HMS Belfast
Air Date: November 26th, 2021
Summary: The series begins aboard the 83-year-old warship, HMS Belfast as an expert team races to get her ready for reopening
Episode 2: World War 2 and the Holocaust
Air Date: December 3rd, 2021
Summary: At IWM's flagship site a team are racing to complete a set of new galleries dedicated to telling the story of World War 2 and the Holocaust.
Episode 3: Husky
Air Date: December 10th, 2021
Summary: At IWM Duxford, a Husky armoured vehicle that was blown up by an IED attack in Afghanistan in 2012 is carefully lifted into place under an aircraft in the AirSpace hangar. Incredibly, the soldier sitting in the front seat of the vehicle when it was hit survived without injury, and he's brought his nine-year-old daughter to the museum to see the vehicle that saved her dad's life.
Episode 4: Ai Weiwei
Air Date: December 17th, 2021
Summary: In Sheffield, cameras follow Dean who discovered a chest full of lost First World War letters and artifacts under a bed when he was clearing out his stepfather's house. For head of First World War Alan Wakefield, it's just the collection he's been looking for, and he helps Dean understand more about the history of the objects he's discovered.
Episode 5: Holocaust Galleries
Air Date: January 7th, 2022
Summary: Experts work on a new gallery; curator James Bulgin meets the granddaughter of a man who was murdered at Auschwitz to understand more about his life.
Episode 6: Final Touches
Air Date: January 14th, 2022
Summary: The final touches are being made ahead of the opening of the new galleries.
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