If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

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Matthew Macfadyen
Matthew Macfadyen

Narrator (voice)

Charlotte Hamblin
Charlotte Hamblin

Elisabeth Bannerman

Tom Rhys Harries
Tom Rhys Harries

Maurice Hardstaff

Ben Lamb
Ben Lamb

Alastair Bannerman

Seamus Morrison
Seamus Morrison

Glen Dickin

Samuel West
Samuel West

Norman Skinner

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    A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.

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    2014-06-01

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