Charlie Lawson, famous for playing Jim McDonald in Coronation Street shares with Al Murray and James Holland his family's history in the Second World War.
Charlie's uncle, who fought with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, was incredibly close with Australian Lawrie Franklyn-Vaile. During the war they shared an incredible connection and both wrote incredibly moving letters back home.
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399. Family Stories: Series 2, Episode 3
398. The Atlantic War
397. The Maginot Line
396. Family Stories - Series 2, Episode 2
395. Battle of The Ebro
394. Wacht Am Rhein
393. Family Stories - Series 2, Episode 1
392. The Eastern Front
391. Typhoons and Republicans
390. We Will Remember Them
389. Class Action
388. Niklas Frank: In the Shadow of the Reich
387. Home Guard
386. What do the Germans think?
385. Black Allied Forces
384. Walking the Ground
383. The Mind of a General
382. The Sosabowskis
381. Patton
380. Stan Perry
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