In The Channel Islands at War, actor John Nettles returns to the Channel Islands, where he made his name as TV's Bergerac, and meets locals who lived through the Nazi occupation in WWII. The Channel Islands - comprising Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm - were the only part of Britain ever to fall under Nazi rule after Winston Churchill thought them impossible to defend. The islanders were left defenceless in the face of the advancing Third Reich and, fearing for their lives, almost the entire population of Alderney fled to mainland Britain in 1940, leaving behind, writes Nettles, "half-eaten meals on the tables and pet dogs and cats running in the roads". Similarly, half the people of Guernsey conducted a hurried exodus, as did one fifth of Jersey. Those who couldn't leave or had nowhere to go braced themselves to await the enemy. Episode 1 of 3 - Invasion and Occupation Episode 2 of 3 - Collaboration and Resistance Episode 3 of 3 - Liberation and Reconstruction
