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SAILOR THE BOXER on Soundcloud Have a listen to the incredible boxing story of Tom Sharkey, who fought them all in the 1890s and won and lost a fortune. His ring battles with Jim Jeffries are legendary – and they became friends for life. In the 1890s the fight game was changing. The prize-fighters and
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D-Day veteran Ted Owens is celebrating winning a Gold award at the New York Festival of TV and Film. The series LEST WE FORGET in which two schoolchildren travelled to France, the Netherlands and Germany with Ted was given the special prize in a documentary category. The Royal Marine Commando was hit by a shell on
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95-year-old veteran TED OWENS interviewed by nine-year-old Evan. Asking all the hard questions! What was it like to shoot someone? https://youtu.be/H9v9UdlI9p4 Please subscribe to Ted’s You Tube channel! How hard was commando training? https://youtu.be/SZPCZWDQNJ4
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Two children, a remarkable D-Day veteran, and a unique look at history – that’s the story behind our series of films, Lest We Forget. Across three films, Ted Owens – now 95 –travels through France and the Netherlands, and visits Germany for the first time, while telling the children his story and chatting about war,
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#DDay veteran Ted Owens is one-in-a-million!1,000,000 views now on @ITV Facebook celebrating the end of our #LestWeForget series with children from @StMarysCardiff!https://t.co/EY6NhgzJyl@Kathryn_ITV @FS_Ed @AlexCHartley @cardiffcouncil @wgmin_education @Kirsty_Williams pic.twitter.com/parzFvktPP — Greg Lewis (@gregjlewis) October 6, 2019
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Catch up on last night’s opening episode of #LestWeForget when you can. Next week opens on a poignant note the morning after #DDay75.https://t.co/ZJYXyOXU7z — Greg Lewis (@gregjlewis) September 19, 2019
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Seeing one’s mother cry Is never a good sight; You begin to wonder How bad things really are. Thursday, October 10: Wales-African Film Festival, Pierhead Building, Cardiff. 7pm Friday, October 11: Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Time 6pm Friday, October 18: Tenby Museum and Art Gallery. 7pm December 4: Cameroon High Commission, Holland Park, London TBC December
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More from Ted Owens – a commando and sniper – who landed on Sword Beach on June 6, 1944. He was interviewed during a trip to the battlefields by two children. These are behind-the-scenes clips filmed while we were making a series called Lest We Forget for ITV Wales. Lest We Forget begins at 8pm on
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Two children interview a D-Day veteran. His name is Ted Owens. He was a commando and a sniper. He almost died on D-Day and was wounded twice more in the Netherlands. I’ll be posting some of their clips over the next fortnight. Question one: What was it like saying goodbye to your parents to go
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