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Our Finest Hours

As Covid-19 presents the UK with its biggest challenge since the Second World War, Sophie Raworth looks at how we have responded to adversity in the past.

As the UK faces its biggest challenge since the Second World War, Sophie Raworth looks at how we have responded to adversity in the past.

Using a combination of wartime archive and contemporary news footage from right across the UK, each episode looks at the impact of Covid-19 on families, communities and businesses, and compares how the nation has responded to crisis now and then.

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