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  1. Death of Major Pat Reid (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Obituary

    Report following the death on 22 May 1990 of Major Pat Reid - author of The Colditz Story and one of the few prisoners to escape from the German high security POW camp. He became famous after publishing his...

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  2. Simon Weston on new burns surgery (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Vanessa Black (not heard) interviews Falklands war veteran Simon Weston about a pioneering new technique in plastic surgery that will give new hope for burns victims in the future. The new technique, in...

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  3. Last reunion of Bomber Command (1986)

    Genre
    News report

    Staff from Bomber Command, the base for the famous dambuster raid of 633 Squadron, meet for their last ever reunion dinner. Air Vice-Marshall Sir Michael Hedgeland describes the decision to make this the...

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  4. Hunger strike over Royal attendance of Emperor Hirohito funeral (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    70 year-old war veteran Andy Burgess on his hunger strike over Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh attending the funeral of Emperor Hirohito in Japan because of Japanese treatment of prisoners of war in the...

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  5. No reconciliation with Japan as VJ 50th anniversary events planned (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Robert Allen reports on the upcoming commemorations of 50th anniversary of VJ Day in London. With comment from Charles Peel, national Public Relations Officer for the Burma Star Association describing the...

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  6. VJ Day anniversary (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Petroc Trelawny reports from Buckingham Palace on the VJ Day 50th anniversary celebrations. Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster; Dr George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury; Viscount (John Douglas) Slim...

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  7. Our kind of town (1979)

    Genre
    Interview; Special

    Our Kind of Town. Keith Howell hosts this episode (Old Soldiers Never Die?) in which 84 year-old World War I survivor Charlie Garrard(?) shares his recollections of the War. Rose Coombs, Special Collections...

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  8. Mount up the wings (1981)

    Genre
    Feature; Special

    Mount Up the Wings, a documentary in memory of the Battle of Britain and Britain during the Second World War. With interviews (ex-service personnel, not identified) and dramatised sections. Looks at the...

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  9. Echoes of D-Day (1994)

    Genre
    Documentary; Drama; Interview; Poetry; Special; Speech

    Echoes of D-Day. A one-hour drama documentary commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and the beginning of the liberation of Europe. Presented by Lord James Callaghan....

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  10. Operation Overlord: D-Day remembered (1984)

    Genre
    Documentary; Interview; News report; Special; Speech

    Operation Overlord: D-Day remembered - an examination of the Normandy invasion 40 years ago. Interviews with Bob Holness; British servicemen from the 6th Airborne Division, the Army Film and Photo Unit and...

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