D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
Sun-Tue, 9pm, BBC2 (box set, iPlayer)
This week marks 80 years since the historic D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy in northern France that started to turn the tide of World War Two.
As part of a raft of programmes marking the anniversary (see panel, right), the remarkable story of the largest seaborne invasion in military history is recounted in the BBC2 docudrama series D-Day: The Unheard Tapes. Using archive audio recordings of British, American and German soldiers, the three-parter tells the story of how Operation Overlord unfolded.
Bringing this testimony vividly to life is a cast of actors in period dress, lip-syncing the veterans’ real voices, along with dramatic reconstructions and historical analysis.
This story is from the June 01, 2024 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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