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Tonight: King and Cuthbertson (BBC North East)
' It all started with a speech by Churchill ..."
Two years before the D-Day landings, SERGEANT PETER KING and PRIVATE LESLIE CUTHBERTSON , both serving in the Army Dental Corps., launched their own private commando raid on the coast of enemy occupied France. Leslie Cuthbertson, now a Tyneside business man, tells the story of those frustrating months in 1942, when he was an army dental mechanic longing to join a combat regiment - he explains, ' It all started with a speech by Churchill ...'
Edward Wilson as Pte Cuthbertson
Bill Wallis as Sgt King
Narrated by LESLIE CUTHBERTSON
Producer DAVID PRITCHARD

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Peter King
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Leslie Cuthbertson
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Edward Wilson
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Bill Wallis
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Leslie Cuthbertson
Producer:
David Pritchard

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