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VE Day special

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Historian Richard Overy describes the situation in Britain and Europe as the Second World War came to an end. Meanwhile, we're joined by TV producer Steve Humphries to talk about his new series Britain's Greatest Generation, which contains interviews with surviving veterans of the conflict.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.3

Well, it was a bittersweet moment, of course, because so many of the diaries and accounts from that day talk about wanting to feel some sense of jubilation, but no, you know, that people in your own family would sacrifice themselves for that conflict that there'd been a terrible cost.

0:57.3

That was Richard Overy

0:58.5

discussing the events of Viyidae.

1:01.1

He remembers running to school

1:02.9

barefooted in Jarrow in the winter

1:05.4

in the 1920s and 30s

1:08.3

and now he's running the same streets

1:10.6

of Jarrow as a 93-year-old in marathons.

1:14.3

And that was Steve Humphreys, talking about a remarkable member of the Second World War generation.

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