Evacuation

Just over sixty years ago, 3 million city-dwelling kids were packed off to the country to avoid Hitler’s bombs. They were dirty, badly behaved and the villagers who took them in were appalled by their ignorance, foul language and poor manners. 

Sixty years on this series takes 12 city kids – from some of the roughest estates in the land - and sends them back in time to the 1940s, deep into the countryside to re-live the evacuation, in a ‘living-history’ project for CBBC. The kids will spend up to 3 weeks on an authentic 1940s-style farm living the life of an evacuee – helping out with farm chores and attending the local ‘evacuation’ school. Stripped of all theirmodern clothes and possessions, they’ll live every detail of the period experience for real. Evacuation taps into the town and country divide, anti-social behaviour, quality of life in urban centres and education.

A TWENTY TWENTY TELEVISION Production