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Prisoners of the Japanese

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Second of two programmes According to the Japanese code, we deserved no mercy or respect because we had allowed ourselves to become prisoners. It taa* the most disgraceful thing that could have happened. We had committed the ultimate offence.
David Wade has been talking to former PoWs who survived the norrors of imprisonment In the Far East during the Second World War.
Their stories describe the reality of the experience as they remember It 40 years later.
Producer ALAN iuydock (Repeated: Fri 11.3 am)

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