VE Day 50: day 3

John Tusa presents coverage of the final VE Day commemoration from Buckingham Palace where Dame Vera Lynn in her final public performance, Sir Harry Secombe and Cliff Richard lead the crowd in a nostalgic sing-along.
Broadcast 8/5/1995
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[@vhswonderland5821]

D-Day 50 playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLATO3hd627ostYQuwUpdRzkO25fW_PmPF

[@SteveMarquis]

Was privileged to be in the chorus in the palace grounds backing up the three singers and on to Hyde Park to sing in the chorus on stage in the evening. Fantastic memories.

[@paulmoores5440]

I remember this well. I was 15 years old at the time; 1995 was a hot summer and I had just done my GCSE exams. Although I knew of Harry Secombe from the Highway programme, I hadn't been familiar with Vera Lynn before then, but have liked her singing ever since. It was a special occasion because so many Second World War veterans were then living, including my grandfather, who I recall wondered what all the fuss was about since he didn't get back to this country until 1946.

[@paolocabling]

50:37 "Thank you! Bye! BYYEE!!" Thank you, Dame Vera Lynn. :(

[@pjmoseley243]

we were celebrating the freedoms our parents had struggled and died for. Freedom and democracy. Who's watching this on 15/sept/2020? RIP Vera Lynn x ( probably the beginning of the end of the BBC as we new it)

[@brega6286]

12/sept/2024 here and so sad how we are losing our nations to this insane world business.

[@kikieran]

43:52 - how proud is that man!

[@Trek001]

Exceptionally - and rightly so... That man has been through a number of campaigns and we'll be forever in his debt

[@kikieran]

@@Trek001 do you know his name?

[@takata98]

Thank You! this has been a wonderful experience to reflect and reminisce. Britain certainly does pomp, circumstance and proprietary with no equal. As I watched and listened to this video, it was rather eerie to listen to Her Majesty the Queen @ 1:02:56. At that point the parallel to the movie "A Royal Night Out!" was so relative. The Queen reminiscing drew such parallels to a wonderful movie, even if "Artistic License" was taken.

[@levimacdonald5188]

RIP DAME VERA 💔🎤🎼

[@sah1681]

God Bless Our Greatest Generation 👍

[@KarenHackman-x9z]

Dame Vera Lynn, Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Harry Secombe wonderful singers I I loved them all😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 6:03

[@brega6286]

The memories of Queen Elizabeth are precious and profound. How the anti royalists can even think they have an edge over those experiences is ludicrous.

[@irishkatevaleriesunga8286]

40:30 proud singing "Rule, Britiannia" Look at her hands. Following Land of Hope and Glory, very nice seeing The Royal Family singing a Patriotic Songs.

[@makeithappengirl]

49:30 wish me luck as you wave me goodbye

[@emiliocacciafeste4906]

Rivedere questo tripudio d affetto di devozione x chi rappresenta la nazione e il suo spirito mi elettrizza e mi fa rimpiangere che nella mia nazione ciò non c e xchè non c e chi veramente incarna e trascina giovani meno giovani anziani a una somma così alta di unione e amore di patria.

[@bossmadammoose1948]

13:56 Roll out the Barrel! 20:42 Bless em all!

[@jateratanachina]

Memorable moments

[@alanblissett9834]

The result of 2 German wars ,now they try to dominate a different way ,

[@رمشاآپی]

اسلام وعلیکم

[@رمشاآپی]

اسلام وعلیکم

[@stephanieshefer5545]

What's Islam got to do with this

[@robdunnett1258]

I wonder if they ever made an album of the songs from that day? Dame Vera Lynn’s rendition of ‘A Nightingale Sang in Barkley Square’, with its slower pace, was very emotional and very haunting, especially now that The Forces Sweetheart has left us, to join all those boys that she sang for who went before.

[@gordonrobertson9072]

Tes they did and can ne still bout.

[@رمشاآپی]

اسلام وعلیکم

[@brega6286]

Truth or tackiya ?

[@123brownjames]

Wonderful! My first memory 🇬🇧👏

[@brega6286]

This is "nostalgia" that should never be forgotten or lost. Those who think they must "modernize: and turn society upside down are sadly delusional.

[@johnmulholland3158]

Wonderful! Brings back memories of my childhood.1958 boy! where the fuck are you ?

[@gordonrobertson9072]

Véra was the songstress of Engluant as the King was as leader.they are all with God now.they Willy enver ne forgotten.

[@carolinebyrne9392]

notice the total lack of socalled divercity there is NOT a forghener in sight only nitive english people to be seen

[@carolinebyrne9392]

i taought of a joke from ww1 a poor shepared bring in his sheep somewhere down deven spotted a fighter bommer cruseing the skys turning to his adult son he sain look up lad we wont get a wink of sleep again tonight with those fockkers pissing about

[@carolinebyrne9392]

again

[@carolinebyrne9392]

the R A F S RED ARROWS ARE IN A LIEGOUE OF THERE OWN THERES NOT A AIR FORSE IN THE WORLD IS A PATCH ON THEM SORRY YANKS BUT THEY ARE STREETS AHEAD OF YOU LOT

[@brega6286]

@@carolinebyrne9392 They were protecting their land and loved ones directly and were most courageous and sternly determined !

[@رمشاآپی]

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