Evacuation
CBBC, Twenty Twenty
This living history series takes a group of 12 modern-day city kids and sends them back in time to the 1940s to experience life as wartime evacuees. The first series packed off kids to the country to avoid the bombs and horror of war. Inner city evacuees were often dirty, under nourished, badly behaved, and couldn't tell a pig from a cow. The country folk who took them in were sometimes appalled by their ignorance, shocked by their foul language and poor manners (sound familiar?) - and many made it their business to give these kids a lesson they'd never forget.
In the second series in 2008, our 12 modern boys and girls are being evacuated to experience life as 1940s evacuees at one of the finest country houses in the land. But if they think living in a posh pad owned by a Lord and Lady means non-stop luxury, they're in for a shock. Before the evacuees can enjoy the perks of the life upstairs, they'll have to face a whole new set of challenges living downstairs with the staff. They'll realise a servants work is never done, manners must be perfect at all times, and all this without a single mod con.
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