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show tickets that's patron dot com slash we have ways Well, I'm a Mohammed, welcome to We have voice of week you talk with me Al-Mary and

James Holland. We are on the Ginkle Heath, the Ginkle Sahela here in, well, nodding on them, and as you can hear this voice on the PA in the background

because this is the commemorative drop stuff that happens it's happening on the

Saturday to commemorate the landings here and a Dakota has just gone over in an

absolutely clear blue sky. It's the most perfect morning. The only thing in the

sky at the moment is the moon isn't it which is waning a little bit and there are

tens of thousands of people here and we thought of this episode we've just

obviously done our big six-partter on Operation Market Garden we thought in this

episode we'd look at how Arnum remembers.

It is unique, isn't it?

Commemoration here is really something.

Just something else.

We were told yesterday when we were figuring out how we went to get here that there will be a hundred thousand people coming from. I was poo-pooed it but actually it looks a lot like it.

The interesting thing is no mawkishness about it is that?

This is part of our kind of, this is part of our identity as a city and we're actually

very proud of it and it's extraordinary because you know it didn't work this is all about the

liberation trail the idea of liberation which of course is a thing we haven't

we haven't experienced no have we so we that's I think the gap. No, because last time they came over in 1066, they stayed.

Who will free us of the Normandy oak gym? So where we are, right right now we're on the Gingle Heath.

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