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Deliverance

Episode 3 of 3

Docudrama following events at Dunkirk in May and June 1940. The town is under siege, with tens of thousands still waiting to be evacuated and daylight sailing suspended.

Major factual drama telling the story of history's greatest maritime evacuation. All the characters are real and all the events are taken from first-hand accounts.

Dunkirk has become a siege town. While a large number of the army have been evacuated many tens of thousands still remain. Jimmy Langley is injured during fierce fighting trying to hold back the final German advance and taken to a casualty clearing station where Major Newman has been trying to evacuate his wounded patients. However no arrangements have been made for them and they are left behind to face the Germans who arrive on the same day as Churchill makes his famous speech vowing 'we will never surrender'.

1 hour

Last on

Fri 4 Jun 201000:20

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Credits

RoleContributor
Captain Bill TennantAdrian Rawlins
ChurchillSimon Russell Beale
Anthony EdenJack Fortune
Neville ChamberlainChristopher Good
Lord HalifaxRichard Durden
Clement AttleeRichard Attlee
Major General AlexanderKevin McNally
Vice Admiral B RansayRichard Bremmer
Captain M DennyNicholas Asbury
Lieutenant Jimmy LangleyBenedict Cumberbatch
Major Angus McCorquodaleNicholas Jones
Guardsman D ThorogoodRicci Harnett
Major Philip NewmanRick Warden
Lieutenant Ian CoxJoseph Mawle
Captain Tom HalseySean Murray
Commander J CloustonWilliam Hope
NarratorTimothy Dalton
ProducerRob Warr
DirectorAlex Holmes

Broadcasts

  • Thu 3 Jun 201023:20
  • Fri 4 Jun 201000:20