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Playing For Time - Three Days In May 1940

Facing defeat in Dunkirk, the War Cabinet challenges Winston Churchill over May bank holiday weekend 1940. Stars Robert Hardy.

Over the May bank holiday 1940, Winston Churchill had been prime minister for a fortnight but was already facing up to a possibly devastating defeat at Dunkirk.

Challenged by the War Cabinet over the way he was conducting the war, Britain's fate hung in the balance...

Wartime drama by Robin Glendinning.

Churchill ...... Robert Hardy
Lord Halifax ...... Ronald Pickup.
Neville Chamberlain ...... Jeremy Child
Clement Atlee ...... Bill Wallis
Arthur Greenwood ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
John Martin ...... David Leonard
Signor Bastianini ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Paul Reynaud ...... Ronald Oliver
General Ismay ...... Mark Buffery

Producer: Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on ±«Óãtv Radio 4 in May 2004.

1 hour

Last on

Tue 5 May 2020 03:00
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