A Genius Performance by Edward Petherbridge! An Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome Tuscan. Following a brief but passionate marriage she dies in childbirth and her English family decide to travel to Italy in order to bring the child back home to England and out of poverty.
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.