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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
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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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