This performance of T.S. Eliot's works is of exceptional quality. It is a mono recording and the tapes are over 30 years old, but the beauty with which Sir Alec Guinness brings these poems to life is sublime. The first 60 sec of side 1 does sound somewhat extended, as if it had been stretched at some time, but this rapidly fades and the rest of the tapes, 119 mins, play perfectly.
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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