The story of the evacuation and the events that led up to it from the break through the French front by the Germans on May 13, 1940. to the morning of June 4 when the Dunkirk beaches and the sea were empty and the Allied troops remaining in the town surrendered to the German Army
The programme is based on British, French. Belgian, and German historical sources, official despatches, and personal narratives
Script by David Divine
With Howard Marion-Crawford
Noel Johnson , Ralph Truman
Edgar Norfolk. Oliver Burt Keith Pyott , Eric Phillips
Frank Windsor , Arthur Young
Malcolm Graeme , Alan Lawrance
Eric Francis , Geoffrey Wincott Robert Cawdron , Noel Dryden and Bill Beesbey
Production by Maurice Brown