Looking back on the anniversary of the landings
The story of D-Day, using rediscovered testimonies of those who were there, on all sides.
D-Day: The Tide Turns follows the real people involved in the Normandy Landings.
A collection of stories that give a snapshot of everyday life in the build up to D-Day.
Explore surprising D-Day stories with curious comrades from the South of England.
Helena Bonham Carter shines light on extraordinary stories from World War Two.
The scientific mission that ensured the success of the D-Day landings.
Vernon hosts a special show live from Normandy, marking 80 years since the D-Day Landings.
Maureen Flavin’s weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
Connie Lewis from Cardiff and Mary Morris from Llandogo worked at a field hospital.
Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.
Vernon Kay with the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Big Band at Portsmouth's Guildhall.
How the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944
Libby Purves follows the way Britain prepared for the assault on Normandy in June 1944.
How a Middlesbrough man became the only person to receive a Victoria Cross on D-Day.
Charles Wheeler recalls the epic of strategic success that made victory possible.
At the very end, Hitler conducts a macabre ritual of marriage, murder and suicide...
Hitler invades Russia, and Stalin's legacy is bound up with a bloody fight to the death.
Hiroo Onoda spent 30 years fighting in the jungle, believing the war was still going on
One of history's most recognisable names, what is the real Winston Churchill story?
The story of one of the most extraordinary intelligence leaks in history.
Eighty years ago a daring raid destroyed dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley
Rana Mitter discusses the role of China in the Second World War.
The Bengal famine of 1943 in British India: the forgotten story of World War 2