4: The Armoured Hedgehog Written by GEORGE ROSIE
Narrated by Rene Cutforth with GAVIN CAMPBELL
On the morning of 20 November 1953, French paratroops began to rain down on Dien Bien Phu - a cluster of tiny hamlets 200 miles from Hanoi. Soon 16,000 regular and colonial troops had created an ' impregnable ' fortress and were inviting the communist Vietminh Army to come out of hiding and fight. The decisive battle for Indo-China had begun. With the voices of DON FELLOWS, ROD BEACHAM
PETER MARINKER , TIMOTHY BATESON
STEVE HODSON , JEFFREY SEGAL
JAMES THOMASON , BERT KWOUK and PETER HOWELL
Produced and directed by MAURICE LEITCH