THE MACHINE GUNNERS EPISODE2 PT3

The story is set during the Second World War and deals with a group of children living in the North East of England in a town called Garmouth regularly suffering from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the children raids a German aircraft that crashed in the area and takes a fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress. They fire the gun at a German plane, missing it but forcing it to crash-land; the gang befriend the pilot, not knowing that they had caused him to crash. The book explores the impact on the community of living under war conditions, and probes the deep effects on the children of that community. Their play reflects the terrors, paranoias and anxieties which were part of 1940s Britain.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• DRAMA

[ridoymonie]

BEAT UP HA HA HA HA A AH AHA AHA HA A

[firefly5339]

Beating by gas mask

[prittstick1ify]

this series is brilliant. how u can say it is a bad series. i was 1983 and is the best drama written by the BBC.

[mcbennyboy169]

@MrJayel27 the book is a very good read :)

[MrJayel27]

@ryko26 This granted,is a bad dramatisation of the book,which is a very good read,..though this series was made a long time ago,and made for kids,...i think it was shown on childrens television,.so that may explain the poor budget and wooden acting etc

[w00k2006]

Someone's taking this too literally it seems. Fantastic stuff TreasureFind1, hats off to you mate.

[ryko26]

so we've got an ARP who says "i thought I'd seen it all in the last war" even though he looks no older than 35 and could not therefore have been old enough to fight in 1914-18. Then we've got grandad (supposed to be in his 70s I guess) haunted by his memories of WWI (when he would have been far too old too serve.