How real was it? By Dan Cruickshank. Women in uniform were a novelty in 1914 and yet 80,000 women served in the forces as non-combatants during World War One. Discover how one exceptional ...

The World War One epic 1917 will be broadcast on BBC Three and its HD channel this Saturday (January 4) at 9pm. It was co-written and directed by Sam Mendes and was his cinematic follow up to ...