Evacuation (TV series)

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show_name = Evacuation


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runtime = 25 mins approx.
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narrated = Matt Baker
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
network = BBC One; CBBC Channel
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first_aired = 4 September, 2006 -
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num_episodes = 20 (as of 15 February 2008)
website = http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/yourlife/evacuation/
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Evacuation is a television series broadcast on CBBC in the UK.

It is a reality show for children, in which six boys and six girls from cities, all aged 12, are taken back to wartime Britain, where their lives are changed dramatically. For two weeks, they live just as evacuees in World War II would have done.

The show is presented by former "Blue Peter" presenter Matt Baker, who in Series One occasionally steps in to speak to and/or help the children when no other adults are there and also sometimes interacts briefly with the adults during his pieces to camera. However, in Series Two, there is a slight change in the format: Matt mainly does pieces to camera (still occasionally interacting with the adults) and stays very much in the background.

eries One

The first series of "Evacuation" began transmission on CBBC on BBC One at 16:30, 4 September 2006.Most of children enjoyed different hobbies and missed their parents over the last two weeks.

The children who were 'evacuated' to the farm were:
* Luke Burton
* Felix Chancellor-Burton
* Harry Cracknell (London)
* Richard Hall
* Charlie McCutcheon (Coventry)
* Josh Opoku (London)
* Laura Adegoke (London)
* Natalie Hancock (Newcastle)
* Tia Hatton
* Joanna Lau (Swansea)
* Chelsea Thompson (Liverpool)
* Natalie Travis (Birmingham) [left on day 3]

The adults were:
* Mr. Brian and Mrs. Sue Rivett, who own the farm (the evacuees were allowed to call them Aunty Sue and Uncle Brian later in the series)
* Miss Young, the school teacher
* Mr. Storey, the local ARP Warden
* Mr. Patrick, a farmhand
* Mr. Graham, the local air-raid shelter expert
* Miss Victoria, a member of the Women's Land Army
* Matthew, the ploughman
* Home Guardsman Private Pickard
* The local vicar

eries Two

The second series, subtitled "to the Manor House", began transmission on CBBC on BBC One at 17:00, 17 January 2008.

This time, the children were evacuated to Pradoe Hall, and begin to learn about the class divide in the 1940s, working in the servants' quarters under the watchful eye of butler Mr. Henderson as opposed to the luxury of the rich.

The children who were 'evacuated' to the manor house were:
*Nishith Hegde (Birmingham)
*Jack Smith
*Samir Sayah (London)
*Sean Williams (Liverpool)
*Scott Dunstan (Falmouth)
*Daniel Rushton (Yorkshire)
*Shaaron Somasanduram
*Olivia Barry (London)
*Rachel Hardy (Warrington)
*Mary Ellen Jones (Bristol)
*Jade Hitchmough (Liverpool)
*Annabella Jacobs
*Sade Philpotts (London) "(who only appeared in the final four episodes)"

The adults were:
* Lord and Lady Olstead, who own the manor house
* Miss Young, the school teacher
* Mr. Henderson, the butler
* Mrs. Dobinson, the housekeeper
* Cook (never named on-screen)
* Mr. Goodall, the gamekeeper
* Miss Victoria, the kitchen hand
* Sergeant Rae
* Nurse
* Colonel Fanthorpe, of the Home Guard
* Mr. Lewis, the ARP Warden
* Mr. Jackson, the Fire Warden

*Episode 1: The children arrived at Pradoe Hall, where they experienced their first taste of 1940s clothes and food, as well as learning about class.
*Episode 2: The girls cooked, picked flowers and polished silverware, while the boys polished shoes, milked goats and cleared up muck. They then (except for Sam) got to enjoy a special luncheon with Lady Olstead.
*Episode 3: The boys discover how unfair life in the 1940s can be when the girls receive a special invite to afternoon tea with Lady Olstead while they have to build a fire.Episode 4: Sunday is not the day of rest for the modern-day evacuees. Miss Young is determined to get them fit, which means an early start for a 1940s-style workout. A good old-fashioned fry-up brings a smile to their face, but not for long, as they soon discover they've got to sing in front of the whole village at church.

Episodes

*List of Evacuation episodes