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  • The focus in the opening episode is the post-second world war era, when cold war anxiety underlay the new suburban consumerism.
  • She finds her grandfather's diary, learns of his role in post-second world war Palestine and retraces his steps to uncover a heartbreaking truth.
  • But winning the MoMA prize was a breakthrough for Robin, and a stimulus to British designers in the bleak years of post-second world war austerity.
  • But what we're also seeing is the predicament of a post-second world war generation that lived through the age of austerity which shaped Leigh's Vera Drake.
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