A motley group of travelers meet at a London inn on their way to Canterbury, where they agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Peter Ackroyd's translation and adaption is magnificent!
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.