For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Alexi DugginsThe Windermere ChildrenBBC Two, 9pmA little-known tale of child Holocaust survivors is told tonight over two separate BBC productions, recalling the 1945 attempt by the British government to use psychologists and counsellors to rehabilitate 300 children on the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere. The story is initially told as a dramatisation based on first-person testimony by survivors. It’s a powerful tale of redemption, as the participants arrive shy, fearful, nervous, flinching from touch, responding to being asked their name by rolling up their sleeves to show the number tattooed on their arm. However, for every haunting scene of night terrors about missing mothers, or corridors that ring with PTSD-induced…

Source: The Times January 26, 2020 23:48 UTC