Exported to 237 global territories and frequently the highest-rating program in the UK,
Call The Midwife (Saturday, April 24, 8.30pm, TVNZ1) was described by
Radio Times as “the torchbearer of feminism on television”. One of BBC’s most successful properties, as season 10 premieres, season 11 has begun filming and the show has already been commissioned for three more after that. Truly epic. Anzac Day gets impressive, all-day coverage at Māori TV, starting with
Auckland’s
Dawn Service (Sunday, April 25, 5.40am, Māori TV) and ending with the movie
25 April (7.30pm), which animates letters and diaries from six New Zealanders who witnessed horrors at Gallipoli in 1915.
More than 100 years later, Britainâs Imperial War Museum gives a straightforward account of how many soldiers died, how many shells were fired and even the weight of packs carried on the bloodiest day in Britainâs military history.
âAs an attritional offensive, the Battle of the Somme involved heavy casualties on both sides. By the end of the first day., British forces had suffered 57,470 casualties, of whom 19,240 were killed.â
The war poet Wilfred Owen, who died one week before the 1918 armistice, had this to say about trench warfare: âWhat passing-bells for these who die as cattle? â Only the monstrous anger of the guns.â