Windermere Children...

When I clicked the link on the BBC website, for the Windermere Children, I thought I was just going to watch a trailer. Instead, ninety minutes later and with tears in my eyes, I’d seen the whole film. The story, of 300 Polish children rescued from the Nazi extermination camps in 1945, and brought to live near Windermere, was powerfully told. The only moment of sentimentality came at the end, when, as the children ran towards the lake, five of the boys were transformed into the men they became. There was nothing fictional about this redemptive narrative; the men - old men now - were all grateful to have been given hope, and a fresh start, in England…