The story of an epic - the second of two programmes compiled by ALAN HAYDOCK
Narrator Frank Windsor
' When I got on the bus the conductor looked at me, and she said, " Are you from Dunkirk? " So I said Yes", and she said " Well I'm not taking any money off you." And she went round the bus with her hat and started a collection.'
When the defeated, weary soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force reached England after the ordeal of Dunkirk, they were welcomed with a unique outpouring of tenderness and affection. More of them had come home than anyone had dared to hope. Within a few days, France would have fallen and Britain would be standing alone against Hitler and the German war machine. The events of the nine days of Dunkirk are remembered now, 40 years later, by some of the men and women who lived through them.
Additional interviews CONRAD NICHOLSON
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (Repeated: Fri 11.5 am)