Home Fires

We have been re-watching this delightful English series about a group of women, members of the WI in a Cheshire village in 1940. It’s a really powerful evocation of how it must have felt when the war suddenly tore peoples’ lives apart and changed their world for ever.
 
Series 2 ends with multiple cliff hangers. Clearly a third series was planned, but in spite of public protests and even a petition, itv didn’t make it. One theory was that the series appealed to an older audience and that didn’t fit with the younger image itv wanted to present.
 
WI? Women’s Institute. Country Women’s Association, CWA, in Australia.