Where was World on Fire season 2 filmed? Discover filming locations

World on Fire returns to BBC One on Sunday night time following a four-year hiatus – and we could not be extra excited!

While the spectacular forged record and gripping plot are definitely what attracts viewers to the programme, it is also the beautiful locations that captivate the eye of audiences. So, the place precisely is the sequence filmed? Keep studying to seek out out…

Where was World on Fire season two filmed?

While we do not know the precise locations used for season two of the favored BBC present, we do know that it was shot in Northern Ireland. 

As for season one, each Manchester and Prague had been used as the principle filming locations. Areas of Wigan had been additionally used for scenes set within the metropolis of Manchester.

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As for components of the present happening in Poland, Berlin and Paris, virtually all of these scenes had been shot in Prague. Series one director Adam Smith advised RadioTimes.com: “We also pretended parts of Manchester were Warsaw. And parts of Wigan were Paris. It was a really confusing shoot!”

Viewers might have additionally seen that the seashores of Blackpool doubled because the shores of Dunkirk.

What is World on Fire season two about?

Set in 1941, season two of World on Fire tells the story of the Second World War by means of the eyes of abnormal individuals and people combating for freedom. 

The synopsis reads: “RAF pilots are sent to destroy German bombers prowling the skies above Manchester, with rescue operations underway on the streets below. The true reality of war has arrived in Britain.”

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The new episodes “will take viewers from the war-torn streets of Britain deep into Nazi Germany, the resistance within occupied France, and the brutal sands of the North African desert – where troops struggle to adapt to a very different kind of combat.” 

In season two, which was filmed final 12 months, our eyes are turned to North Africa, “where Soldiers from the British Empire found themselves fighting for the Allies in a desert that had been carved up in the previous century by European powers,” stated author and creator Peter Bowker. 

He continued: “So alongside British Soldiers we tell the story of Indian fighters and Italian enemies – pulled together by battle on a landscape that was no more familiar to them than the surface of the moon – and possibly less hospitable. 

“In Europe we dramatise the deteriorating scenario in occupied France because the Nazi occupation hardens and resistance turns into more and more harmful . . . And in Germany we inform a narrative of how a warped and poisonous nationalism can induce ‘abnormal individuals’ to bend their morality to breaking level.”

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The present may also inform the story of the “murkier world of espionage” because the Home Office despatched a few of its Whitehall males north to Manchester, the place they “set up crude spy networks amongst refugees to investigate potential sabotage and keep an eye on morale in industrial towns and cities that they didn’t entirely trust or understand”.