David Olusoga traces the residents’ stories from winter 1942 to the end of the war. In the shattered ruins of Berlin, not all the residents survive.\n\nAs the Berlin residents come to terms with Germany's declining fortunes following defeat at Stalingrad, members of the Jewish Sallisohn family are taken to Auschwitz - although the fate of one member, Reinhold and Ursula's young daughter Daisy, appears unclear, leading to an astonishing story of bravery and endurance.\n\nIn London, the former residents of Montagu Mansions, empty after heavy bombing and government requisition, have been forced to move elsewhere. Ex-resident Blanche Gamble waits for news of her soldier husband, John, who was involved in the devastating British defeat at Singapore, while Montagu Mansions itself plays a key role in sabotage and reconnaissance missions in occupied Europe.
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Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 4
David Olusoga traces the residents’ stories from winter 1942 to the end of the war. In the shattered ruins of Berlin, not all the residents survive.\n\nAs the Berlin resid ...
07-11-2024
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 3
It’s 1940, and in London, the threat of invasion by Germany has become very real. Montagu Mansions resident Timothy Corsellis begins training as an RAF pilot, but begins t ...
31-10-2024
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 2
By 1936, the ruling Nazi Party is transforming the lives of the residents at the building in Berlin. One new resident, academic Paul Dittel, has returned to Germany to join the ...
30-10-2024
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 1
David Olusoga traces the lives of residents of two apartment blocks - Montagu Mansions in Marylebone, London, and 72 Pfalzburger Strasse in Wilmersdorf, Berlin - to tell the sto ...
23-10-2024
BBC 2
Series 4: Episode 4
The final episode opens at the outbreak of the Second World War, and our house is home to the Wood family. While father John serves as an ARP warden, teenage son Geoffrey joins ...
13-06-2024
BBC 2
Series 4: Episode 3
By 1913, Number 5 is home to respectable couple Frederick and Louisa Pryce Lewis. From a clue in the family photo album, David follows the trail of their younger son Walter, tra ...
30-05-2024
BBC 2
Series 4: Episode 2
Digging into the affairs of the house’s next resident, Benjamin Wild, David discovers a factory owner with a history of questionable business dealings, including an employ ...
23-05-2024
BBC 2
Series 4: Episode 1
David Olusoga discovers our house’s first resident - idealistic Victorian lawyer William Bruce, who tries and fails to save the life of a man convicted to hang for murder. ...
16-05-2024
BBC 2
Series 3: Episode 4
The final episode of the series sees David tracing the lives of 10 Guinea Street’s occupants through World War II to the present day, discovering stories of love, loss and ...
08-06-2023
BBC 2
Series 3: Episode 3
In this episode, David follows the house’s fortunes from the 1880s through to the end of the First World War, as it slides down the social scale and moves into multiple oc ...
01-06-2023
BBC 2
Series 4: Episode 1
David Olusoga discovers our house’s first resident - idealistic Victorian lawyer William Bruce, who tries and fails to save the life of a man convicted to hang for murder. ...
16-05-2024
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 2
By 1936, the ruling Nazi Party is transforming the lives of the residents at the building in Berlin. One new resident, academic Paul Dittel, has returned to Germany to join the ...
30-10-2024
BBC 2
Series 3: Episode 4
The final episode of the series sees David tracing the lives of 10 Guinea Street’s occupants through World War II to the present day, discovering stories of love, loss and ...
08-06-2023
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 1
In the first episode, David Olusoga pays his first visit to the house. It is a Georgian end-of-terrace property on Ravensworth Terrace, in Newcastle upon Tyne’s gritty Wes ...
07-10-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
This series tells a story of Britain spanning a period of seismic social change from the 1840s to the present day, through the prism of a single-terraced house in Liverpool. Pre ...
04-07-2020
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 2
In episode two, David Olusoga tracks the lives of the residents of Ravensworth Terrace through the turbulent decades from the 1860s to the 1900s.\n\nIn 1861 the house is occupie ...
14-10-2021
BBC 2
Series 5: Two Cities At War: Episode 3
It’s 1940, and in London, the threat of invasion by Germany has become very real. Montagu Mansions resident Timothy Corsellis begins training as an RAF pilot, but begins t ...
31-10-2024
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 4
The final episode begins in 1946. The householders are John Walter and Florence Smyth. They live here with their daughter Myra and rent rooms to lodgers. A collection of family ...
04-11-2021
BBC 2
Series 4: Episode 4
The final episode opens at the outbreak of the Second World War, and our house is home to the Wood family. While father John serves as an ARP warden, teenage son Geoffrey joins ...
13-06-2024
BBC 2
Series 3: Episode 3
In this episode, David follows the house’s fortunes from the 1880s through to the end of the First World War, as it slides down the social scale and moves into multiple oc ...
01-06-2023
BBC 2