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The Cinderella Service & Cinderella D-Day
- Length
- 4 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher
- BBC Digital; 2021
- Catalogue Number
- 18995
- Synopsis
Based in Devon in the 1940s, these two dramas follow the lives and loves of a group of young women, all from different backgrounds, but all determined to do their bit for King and country in the Land Army.
Billeted in a hastily-converted farmhouse, they face cramped conditions and gruelling work - but there's always dances at the village hop and the chance of romance with a GI...
The Cinderella Service: It's 1943, and Alice Todd has just separated from her husband. With a ten-year-old son to care for, she accepts the position of Warden at a hostel for Land Girls: but is she up to the job?
Cinderella D-Day: 1944. Alice is still busy running the Women's Land Army hostel. But the girls in her care are finding that life in wartime does not run smoothly.