Which Way to the War Which Way to the War Which Way to the War is an intended British television sitcom written by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, which was discontinued after a one-off broadcast pilot on 19 August 1994. It was also Croft and Lloyd's only ITV sitcom and Croft's last World War II sitcom. In the Western Desert of World War Two, a party of British "Desert Rats" soldiers and a party of Australian soldiers are holed up in a remote building, when an ambulance of Italian "nurses" arrive. The pilot was badly received (Or quite well received, depending on what column of
William Hardcastle (broadcaster) William Hardcastle (broadcaster) William Hardcastle (26 March 1918 – 10 November 1975) was a British journalist, editor of the "Daily Mail" and first presenter of the lunchtime news programme "The World at One" on BBC Radio. Hardcastle was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and educated at the Newcastle Preparatory School and Durham School. His early intention to follow his father into the medical profession was thwarted when he contracted osteomyelitis as a fifteen-year-old, and in 1938 he joined the "Shields Gazette" as a reporter. Unfit for active service, Hardcastle remained a journalist throughout the Second World War, moving in turn