On Westminster Bridge (Wordsworth) Ode To A Nightingale (Keats) On Wenlock Edge (A.E. Housman) Youth And Age On Beaulieu River (Betjeman) A Subaltern's Love Song (Betjeman) Hunter Trials (Betjeman) Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal (Tennyson) Daffodils (Wordsworth) Sonnet No.2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow (Shakespeare) Sonnet No.18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? (Shakespeare)...
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.