World War Two

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City to light up in patriotic colours for VE Day
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Peterborough
Posted
5 May 2025
Sons of Great Escape survivors to retrace WW2 march
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Beds, Herts & Bucks
Posted
5 May 2025
Jonathan Dimbleby: My Father and Belsen. Video, 19 minutes
Jonathan Dimbleby reflects on his father Richard's reporting on the liberation of Belsen.
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BBC Four
Available for over a year
Godstone marks VE Day with village celebration
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Surrey
Posted
4 May 2025
NI politicians attend service to mark 80th anniversary of VE Day
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Northern Ireland
Posted
4 May 2025
UK government confirms Liberation Day plans
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UK
Posted
4 May 2025
Paramedic to represent Guernsey at VE Day parade
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Guernsey
Posted
4 May 2025
WW2 Spitfire emergency landing after losing power
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Kent
Posted
4 May 2025
Woman, 94, remembers 'all the excitement' of VE Day
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Wiltshire
Posted
4 May 2025
Alderney holding two events to mark VE Day 80
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Guernsey
Posted
4 May 2025
'Poignant' service to remember Hull Blitz dead
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Hull & East Yorkshire
Posted
4 May 2025
'We were there when Europe's guns fell silent'
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England
Posted
4 May 2025
Charity reunites WW2 bible with airman's family
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Kent
Posted
4 May 2025
Restored 1930s plane to be displayed in cathedral
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Kent
Posted
4 May 2025
D-Day veteran remembered with sign at beloved park
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Birmingham & Black Country
Posted
4 May 2025
VE Day Palace flypast prep 'like herding cats'
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England
Posted
4 May 2025
Villagers to mark VE Day at former US airfield
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Essex
Posted
4 May 2025
War veteran recalls seeing Royal Family on VE Day
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Beds, Herts & Bucks
Posted
4 May 2025
Drama on 4. Victory at Ambridge, Victory at Ambridge, Part 1. Audio, 57 minutes
A cryptic mystery sets 1940s Ambridge alight in this wartime prequel to The Archers.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Conscripting Beethoven. Audio, 44 minutes
How two women used Beethoven's piano music to shape wartime culture in Germany and Britain
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BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Europe marks VE Day with Trump on its mind
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Europe
Posted
4 May 2025
VE Day 80th anniversary celebrations in West Yorkshire
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England
Posted
3 May 2025
101-year-old WW2 codebreakers reunite for VE Day
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Wales
Posted
3 May 2025
The bombed London church that was reborn in the USA
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London
Posted
3 May 2025