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  1. Bill Sparks WW2 memories (1985)

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    Interview

    Remembrance Day special with Cockleshell Hero Bill Sparks recalling the Royal Marine canoe raid on enemy shipping in Bordeaux harbour during the Second World War. On the raid, his escape across France and...

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  2. 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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  3. Battle of the Somme 70th anniversary (1986)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Paul Maurice reports on the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme (1916) and a memorial service in France where Prince Edward, Duke of Kent paid tribute to the dead soldiers. Preceded by interviews...

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  4. Geoffrey Howe defends Hirohito funeral attendance decision (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe defends Britain’s decision to be represented at the funeral of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito by himself and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He says the atrocities of the...

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  5. 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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  6. Veteran ends hunger strike (1989)

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    Interview

    70 year-old war veteran Andy Burgess talks about his hunger strike over Prince Philip attending the funeral of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, why he has ended it after receiving a letter from the Queen and...

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  7. Jack Lemmon on Veterans Day (1989)

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    Interview

    Carol Allen interviews American actor Jack Lemmon about his return to the London stage at the Theatre Royal Haymarket - scene of his West End debut in 1986 in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. In the new...

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  8. Jack Lemmon on Veterans Day (1989)

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    Interview

    Carol Allen interviews American actor, Jack Lemmon, about his return to the London stage at the Theatre Royal Haymarket - scene of his West End debut in 1986 in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. In the new...

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  9. Veterans angered at Prince Philip (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Julie Benson reports on efforts by veterans of the Burma Star Veterans Association to oust Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh as their patron at their AGM. Follows him attending the funeral of Japanese Emperor...

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  10. 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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