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Radio 4,31 Aug 2009,30 mins

Series Series 4

Tracing Your Roots - Wartime Losses

Tracing Your Roots

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Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice of researching family history. For 60 years, Stella Collis has only known her German PoW father's name, but now she is united with her father's military records. This is just one of many wartime stories that Sally explores, in a programme marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.

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