Britain's Greatest Generation

We meet some of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War Two. Now in their nineties and hundreds, they come from both rich and poor backgrounds.

We meet one of the last surviving pilots of the Battle of Britain, we hear from men who did some of the most dangerous war work of all- getting the convoys through, and we find out what kept people going when defeat was staring them in the face.

This film interweaves stories of extraordinary courage, terrible suffering and miraculous survival from servicemen and women between 1942 and 1945. We meet the bomber boys, who flew on some of the most dangerous missions of the war.

This episode features Arctic Convoy survivor Austin Byrne, former Fleet Air Arm pilot and Scotland football manager Bobby Brown and ex-prisoner of war Jim Purcell - just a few of the extraordinary members of `Britain's Greatest Generation'.