The Life and Death of the Scharnhorst
Written and presented by Ludovic Kennedy
On Sunday 26 December 1943, the most successful warship in the German navy was sunk off the North Cape of Norway by the guns and torpedoes of the British Fleet. So ended a career during which the German battleship had sunk an aircraft carrier, two destroyers and well over 100,000 tons of merchant shipping.
LUDOVIC KENNEDY (whose father commanded HMS Rawalpindi, the first ship sunk by the Scharnhorst) tells the story of the battleship's four years of war. The programme includes participants in both navies and remarkable action film shot at the time.
The film is super (SUNDAY TIMES) A dramatic, moving tale (THE OBSERVER) Produced by EDWARD UIRZOErF and TONY BROUGHTON