Smith (series one) as Webster O'Connor, a gay American doctor based in Paris and Nancy's nephew. Zofia Wichłacz as Kasia Tomaszeski, a waitress from Warsaw, with whose family Harry lodges, who later joins the Polish Resistance.In series two, Lois is an ambulance driver. Julia Brown as Lois Bennett, a 21-year-old factory worker and talented singer who later joins the Entertainments National Service Association. Lesley Manville as Robina Chase, Harry's wealthy and emotionally repressed mother.Sean Bean (series one) as Douglas Bennett, a bus conductor, pacifist and shell-shocked veteran of the Battle of the Somme, and father to Lois and Tom.Helen Hunt (series one) as Nancy Campbell, an American journalist struggling to broadcast the truth from Berlin.Jonah Hauer-King as Harry Chase, an interpreter at the British embassy in Warsaw who is later commissioned into the British Army, and joins the SOE.The second series covers October 1940 to May 1941 and features the beginning of the The Blitz in Manchester and the North African campaign (including Operation Compass and the Siege of Tobruk) while also returning to occupied France and Nazi Germany, with the resistance movement and Lebensborn program being shown, respectively. It details events such as the Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig, the Battle of the River Plate, the Dunkirk evacuation and the Battle of Britain. The first series covers March 1939 to July 1940, and features visits to Paris, Warsaw, Manchester, Berlin and Dunkirk. Set in the Second World War, the series follows the intertwined lives of ordinary civilians across Europe who are caught up in World War II. World on Fire is a British war drama television series created by Peter Bowker.
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