75 years on from the first publication of "1066 and All That", Craig Brown takes over where Sellars and Yeatman left off. With all the zest and exuberance of the original, "1966 and All That" takes us on a half-remembered journey of imperial decline, loss of mustaches, The Sewers Crisis...
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.