Women at War - 100 Years of Service

In 1917 the first all-female military unit was established, allowing women to join Britain’s Armed Forces for the first time. One hundred years later women are being trained for combat, to fight alongside men on the frontline.

In this inspiring series, stripped across a week in the lead up to Remembgrance Day, BBC One marks and remembers those who signed up and put their lives on the line. To see how much has changed over the last century, viewers will follow five well-known faces as they tell their own personal stories of their time in service, and that of their relatives.

June Brown talks of her time as a Wren during the Second World War; Edward Fox uncovers what life was like for his aunt who worked as a Land Girl; Dame Kelly Holmes relives her time as PTI instructor in the Army; Pam Ayres reminisces about her service in the WRAF during the late 60s and Nicky Campbell and his mother Sheila discover the reality of the work she did as a radar operator during WWII.

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