00:02A quarter of the world's population is now living under some form of lockdown due to coronavirus.
00:12I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this
00:18challenge.
00:19And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.
00:26Hold Still gives a snapshot of life during lockdown, documenting the nation's experience of this extraordinary time.
00:34The treasured chance to see through the eyes of people in their most tender moments, into the seconds flushed with
00:41emotion, into the hope caught in a glance, into the loss captured in a gesture, into this most memorable time
00:49of many of our lives.
00:53Over 31,000 of these powerful moments caught in the digital atmosphere, 100 portraits of perseverance inside a pandemic.
01:05Things will get better, the sun will shine, and we'll never walk alone.
01:12When historians look back at this time, and they will, and ask, yes, but how did the nation feel?
01:20The answer will be, hold still.
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