Performances by Ralph Richardson, John Betjeman, John Gielgud, T.S. Eliot, Richard Burton and Robert Donat of some of Keats', Betjeman's, Shakespeare's, T.S. Eliot's, Dylan Thomas's and many more poets.
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.