Including recordings from 1890 through to 1937 - these are the voices of the great actors that inspired the extraordinary growth of Shakespeare productions during the early 20th Century. Edwin Booth, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Arthur Bourcher, Lewis Waller, Ben Greet, John Barrymore, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson,
This programme focuses on the largest sea-borne invasion in modern history and one of the world's most tightly kept secrets. It brings together despatches from the BBC War Correspondents who brought up-to-the-minute, graphic descriptions of the events to the listening public. This is a unique collection, a chance to hear history in the making: the day and the hour of D-Day June 1944.
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