' It was a quiet lunch.
Not much conversation.
There were slices of state-coloured bread, wedges of cold unidentifiable meat and a vegetable-like turnip. For dessert, wrinkled Wind-fallen apples. Wine from unlabelled bottles was poured into small thick tumblers. The language barrier seemed impenetrable. Every now and again I saw the Capitaine give a cool appraising glance in our direction.'
In the summer of 1944, Henry Donald was sent for no apparent reason with his RAF radar unit to a small town in France, only to be greeted in a strange way by the local Resistance. In this talk, he unravels one of the small, touching mysteries of those weeks that followed D-Day.
Producer PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)