The Father Producer David Parfitt Sets The War Rooms, With Serpent Star Jenna Coleman
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Parfitt will produce via his Trademark Films alongside Jamie Carmichael (“Fishtank,” “Black Book”) for Atlantic Nomad.
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Created by David Chidlow, “The War Rooms” is the untold story of the women who lived, loved and triumphed in Winston Churchill’s secret Whitehall bunker. The series is based on the true story of Joan Bright (Coleman), who started WWII as a secretary and ended it organizing the great Allied conferences. Ian Fleming was her friend and it is rumored that Bright was the template for the iconic Miss Moneypenny character in the James Bond novels and films. Bright’s memoir “The Inner Circle: A View of War at the Top” has been optioned for the series.
Jenna Coleman to Play Miss Moneypenny Inspiration in WWII Series The War Rooms
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Paul Dolman as a baby with his parents, Francis and Arthur. “My uncles were in World War I,” Dolman recalls. “When they were amongst themselves, they would talk about it.” In the lead up to WWII, there was a lot of talk that “Hitler was rising”. After Britain declared war in 1939, the associated chat among the boys at school centred around having to join the armed forces when they turned 18. Dolman does not remember any of his peers looking forward to the experience. “Nobody wanted to join the army, no, but they knew they had to.” It did not take long for the intense bombing campaign by Nazi Germany – the Blitz – to spread beyond London.
Pervasive Racism Meant Black And Asian WWI Troops Were Not Commemorated
An apology has been made after an investigation found that those individuals were not formally remembered in the same way as their white comrades.
“Pervasive racism” underpinned a failure to properly commemorate potentially hundreds of thousands of predominantly Black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for the British Empire, an investigation has found.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) apologised after its investigation found those individuals were not formally remembered in the same way as their white comrades.
Defence secretary Ben Wallace on Thursday morning told the Commons: “The number of casualties commemorated unequally, the number commemorated without names and the number otherwise entirely unaccounted for is not excusable.” He accepted that “prejudice” had played a part.
Plea to teach children about the Empire and Commonwealth soldiers who fought for Britain
An investigation by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission confirmed black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for the British Empire were not properly commemorated
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