Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC - Dambuster

Dambuster pays tribute to legendary wartime pilot Guy Penrose Gibson, who was awarded the Victoria Cross after leading 617 Squadron on their daring low-level raid on the Ruhr dams in Germany on the night of 16/17 May 1943. As well as a rare radio interview with Gibson recorded in America that same year, the CD also includes a 1944 interview with members of the Lancaster crew led by Harold 'Mick' Martin, who also took part in the famous raid.The 75 minute CD also includes a re-creation of a radio programme Gibson recorded in February 1944, for which he selected eight favourite pieces of music, including Wagner, Strauss, Bing Crosby and Addinsell's wartime evergreen Warsaw Concerto. Gibson's words are voiced by the actor Richard Todd, who played Gibson in the famous 1955 film The Dambusters, and a veteran of D-Day himself. The CD also includes the evergreen Dambusters March, written for the film by composer Eric Coates, and closes with Todd's recollections of the making of the film, and