Episode 2
The true story of Liverpool’s May Blitz continues as Michael Buerk, Angellica Bell and Rob Bell find out what life was like for people caught up in some of the most intense bombing ever experienced by a British city. Angellica picks up the story of Dr Leonard Findlay and Matron Gertrude Riding as their hospital is bombed. Dr Leonard’s son Charles tells his father’s incredible story. In the maternity ward of the hospital young mothers searched desperately for their babies – a survivor tells her the story of her mother’ bravery as the building came crashing down.