The Windermere Children

[Aruntraveller]

This has just been shown on BBC2. It is a film about Jewish, mainly Polish children who were brought to Lake Windermere at the end of the 2nd World War from the concentration camps. The purpose was rehabilitation. I don't want to say too much about it, but despite some obvious emotional manipulation, and an overly generous portrayal of the British establishment, it was an extraordinarily powerful piece of television. You have to stick with it to the end.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000dtcz/the-windermere-children

[jeremyp]

an overly generous portrayal of the British establishment,

Is it too hard to imagine that, occasionally, the British establishment does something right?

[Aruntraveller]

Is it too hard to imagine that, occasionally, the British establishment does something right?

Oh they got it right for these few hundred children, but I was thinking of the thousands that were refused asylum by the British at that time. There wasn't any real mention of that, which perhaps wasn't possible within the framing of the production. It still jarred a little for me.