Tagged with: Remembrance
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Len Deighton's Bomber on Radio 4 Extra: Drama in real time
Jonathan Ruffle
From the BBC archives: "Mrs Dorothy Downs is one of a group of women workers who recently volunteered to give up their holidays to work very long hours in order to back up the RAF's 1,000 bomber raids over Germany." Repeating Bomber on Armistice Day of all days is a massive compliment to...
The Poppy Factory
Chris Ledgard
The Poppy Factory, Wednesday 9 November at 11am, tells the story behind the red commemorative poppies and the ex-service men and women who make them. It's also a Radio Times choice of the day - PM. Cutting out petals at the Poppy Factory in 1935 With the death of the last First World...
Sunday Worship from Camp Bastion, Helmand
Phil Pegum
The seeds for Sunday Worship from Helmand were sown more than five years ago. I'd always been interested in the role of religion in an organisation where the job - when all else failed and to put it bluntly - was to blow things up and kill people. It took about 18 months from first contacting th...
