00:00Hi, I'm Saoirse Ronan and I play Rita in Blitz.
00:04Today I'm reading real letters from ordinary people who experienced the Blitz during World War II.
00:11These are the days to be alive in, written by Carol Brann.
00:15These are the days to be alive in.
00:18These days, now.
00:20They are hard, unhappy, lonely, wasted, infuriating, terrifying, heartbreaking days.
00:30But they are history.
00:32And in them we are a part of history.
00:35We are lucky to be living now.
00:38Saved by the Bus, written by Joan Varley.
00:42I remember I was travelling on a bus late at night.
00:45We were driving down the street when we heard bombs coming down.
00:49And we knew that they were just a bit ahead of us.
00:52We were driving towards the bombs, not knowing if the driver was going to be able to avoid them.
00:58The man at the front of the bus walked down, sat next to me and held my hand.
01:05Neither of us spoke a word.
01:07And once we were through the bomb area and were back onto the route,
01:12he silently moved back to the front seat.
01:15A moment I'll never forget.
01:17Midnight Meals, written by Frances Goddard.
01:20This one's quite funny.
01:22Everybody had their crafty ways of getting extra black market food.
01:26It was the only way you could survive.
01:28My wife was working in a really good restaurant.
01:31Salmon, pheasants, turkeys, steaks, roasts.
01:35And she brought it all back in her knickers.
01:38She'd come home and wake me up.
01:41And she'd empty her purse out and pour out the tips.
01:45And out would come a piece of tissue paper.
01:48She'd undo it and there'd be two nice pieces of cold cooked steak.
01:53Which is so amazing.
01:54And I feel like that's exactly what I would do.
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