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Churchill called the little band of airmen The Few; 2,000 or so British fliers joined by allies from Canada and New Zealand, Poland, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere.

As time passes of course the few are becoming fewer still but there are 25 or so survivors with us who still remember the fighting and remember how they held the future of the free world in their hands for those few weeks.

Geoffrey Wellum is among them - author of an extraordinary book about his experiences as a 19-year-old Spitfire pilot called First Light. He spoke to Broadcasting House about his life.