The Saturday Play - Playing for Time -Three Days in May 1940
Over the May bank holiday, Churchill, who had been prime minister for a fortnight and was facing up to a possibly devastating defeat at Dunkirk -was challenged by the War Cabinet over the way he was conducting the war. Britain's fate hung in the balance. Written by Robin Glendinning. Director Jeremy Howe
Playing For Time - 3 Days in May 2004-05-22
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Historian John Lukacs wrote a history of WWII,
then narrowed another down to
The Duel: 10 May–31 July 1940: the Eighty-Day Struggle between Churchill and Hitler.
A few years later, he came out with Five Days in London, May 1940.
Each book was roughly the same length. Five Days had many extracts from the
participants war diaries.
It was interesting to watch a historian in the process of distillation.
This play goes even further, apparently.
Many thanks, Mike.
Dear Mike,
Thanks for sharing this play.
Bob
Thank you so much for this. If at all accurate disaster for freedom even as limirted as today was so very nearly lost and the writers skill is in making what would likely have led to defeat seem very convincing but Tory tho he seas by then Churchill saw through the weaker brethren