The Machine Gunners!

This would probably only interest the ... erhumm ... older members who frequent here but I've recently found the entire series of The Machine Gunners on youtube.

The story is set during the Second World War and deals with a group of
children living in the North East of England in a town called Garmouth
regularly suffering from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the
children raids a German aircraft that crashed in the area and takes a
fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress.
They fire the gun at a German plane, missing it but forcing it to
crash-land; the gang befriend the pilot, not knowing that they had
caused him to crash. The book explores the impact on the community of
living under war conditions, and probes the deep effects on the children
of that community. Their play reflects the terrors, paranoias and
anxieties which were part of 1940s Britain.

Enjoy!

THE MACHINE GUNNERS EPISODE1 PT1

Oh, I hadn't realised they'd made a series of it. I remember reading the book many moons ago.

We read the book at school and then the series came out. It's superb