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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? Please subscribe to Ted’s You Tube channel! How hard was commando training?
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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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I grew up in Cameroon Where on the wall Of my mother’s living room A gecko waited Patiently For the moth. THIS IS NOT A POEM a hymn to tolerance and understanding, written and spoken by Eric Ngalle Charles, directed by Greg Lewis. A Pegasws Production. Read all about this new short film here.
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Today I drown in my sleep Here in exile While strangers build thrones on my father’s grave