Dame Vera Lynn
From Lloyd Webber to her own songs. Wartime forces' sweetheart Vera Lynn shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From 1989.
From Andrew Lloyd Webber to her own songs.
Wartime forces' sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley.
Recalling her own Second World War experiences 鈥� from performing in front of servicemen as far away as Burma, and as close to home as London's Regent's Park.
Ever since then, Dame Vera was constantly in demand all over the world for her singing and her songs, reviving as they do wartime memories both happy and sad.
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in September 1989
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