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The Great War (TV series) Much use was made of 20th Century symphonies, including Shostakovitch's 11th Symphony and Vaughan Williams' "Sinfonia Antartica'. Each episode of "The Great War" was seen by an average audience of over eight million people, a 17 percent share of the estimated viewing population. The fourth episode, the most popular of the series, reached an audience of over eleven million (22.6 percent of the audience). Following transmission of the series by the Republic of Ireland's national TV station, Telefís Éireann, "The Great War" won a Jacob's Award at the 1964 presentation ceremony in Dublin. On 16 October 2013, fifty years after