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Private Harry Patch
A year in the life of Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the First World War trenches. Historian Richard Van Emden takes Harry back to the battlefield to lay a memorial stone, while the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composes a new choral work to pay tribute.
Last on
Mon 24 Nov 2008
19:30
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- Mon 24 Nov 2008 19:30