{"id":231860,"date":"2025-10-29T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:25:10","slug":"new-bbc-documentary-on-belfast-blitz-explores-life-in-ni-during-second-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231860\/","title":{"rendered":"New BBC documentary on Belfast Blitz explores life in NI during Second World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">American mum\u2019s letters detail the horror and hardships faced by families\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Annadale Street after the Belfast Blitz of 1941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/34256953-40fc-4ab1-89e0-8a76cc35c24d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Annadale Street after the Belfast Blitz of 1941<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A new documentary, through the letters of a mother living in Belfast, is to provide a rare glimpse of life in Northern Ireland amid the dangers of the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Letters from the Blitz, produced by DoubleBand Films and airing tomorrow on BBC NI, describes the horror as well as the poignant stories of humanity during the Nazi bombardment, which led to hundreds of deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American mum\u2019s letters detail the horror and hardships faced by families Annadale Street after the Belfast Blitz of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[98362,243,1334,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-231860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alf-mccreary","tag-bbc","tag-belfast","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}