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Sounds,01 Aug 2024,34 mins,

SeriesD-Day: The Tide Turns

10. Journalists on the Front Line

Noiser Presents
Contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

Available for 359 days

Allied journalists parachute into France and land on the beaches with the invasion force. Legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn stows away on a ship, determined to beat her estranged husband, Ernest Hemingway, to the D-Day scoop. And a homing pigeon known as Gustav brings the first news of D-Day to Britain… A Noiser production, written by Edward White.

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