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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
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Artillery Wood Two military graves lying only feet apart in a Belgian cemetery commemorate the lives of two iconic literary figures: the greatest Welsh and the greatest Irish poets of the Great War. They died on the same day (102 years ago today) in the same battle, but the paths that led them into British
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If you have a tough question, ask a commando:
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On March 28, 1942 more than 600 men left Falmouth in Cornwall in a flotilla of three destroyers and 16 smaller boats. The special fleet included HMS Campbeltown which was packed with explosives and was to be used to ram into the gates of the docks of the French port of St Nazaire. St Nazaire was