This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you.

It is, of course, the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, an event which, well, changed the course of the Second World War, but of course

also changed the face of history, actually. And although there is a tendency on these occasions

to, I can't say over-sentimentalise, I'm not sure you can feel too much for those events

and the people who undertook them, the people who took the risks and

in many cases made the supreme sacrifice. I do want to humanise those men, if I can, with

your help this morning, to bring them down to the fathers and the brothers, the husbands and the

sons that they were, rather than this sort of, what would you call it really?

Homogenous grouping of men as opposed to the individuals.

It's why the letters that were read out yesterday were so powerful. It reminds us of the individual.

I don't have much to bring to the table myself. My granddad's were, respectively in a protected profession, the steel industry, and the police. One of my grandparents, never really spoke to him about that.

Always talk to your granddad if you get the chance, because you're never going to get the chance again.

I don't know what my paternal granddad did during the Second World War. I know he did some pretty grizzly stuff because my dad told me,

but he was a serving police officer in Leeds during the Second World War.

But your family stories will be there as well.

I want to hear them.

There's no particular criteria for involvement or inclusion,

just the tales that were told in your family, the uncle, the great uncle. I had an idea. Do you know, I think I may even have told you this. I haven't calculated exactly how many years I've been working at LBC because if I do, I know roughly how many it is, but it just makes me feel so old. Luckily, I have many

colleagues at whom I can glance and reassure myself enormously that I'm still a relative spring

chicken. Not mentioning any names, Steve, Nick. However, I do remember, I think I told you,

I wanted, I went to the Legion, the British Legion a few

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