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Key moments in the attack on Pearl Harbour and atomic bombing of Japan in World War Two.

While the Allies celebrated victory in Europe, war was not over for the men and women on the Asian front in World War Two. This episode traces those final months of war - from the prisoner of war camps on the so-called ‘death railway’, to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by nuclear bombs. We explore how memory and forgetting have shaped our war narrative in the 80 years since the World War Two, and we meet descendants of those who were there, discovering new stories, even now.

Presenter/writer: Kavita Puri
Script editor: Ant Adeane
Sound engineer: James Beard
Production co-ordinators: Sabine Scherek, Maria Ogundele,
Original music: Felix Taylor
Archive Curator: Tariq Hussain

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27 minutes

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Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:32GMT

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  • Thu 11 Sep 2025 09:32GMT
  • Sun 14 Sep 2025 18:32GMT