The Festival Of Remembrance On Bbc1

[Bobbisox1]

Time for us to give our thanks to those people past and present who gave their all for our tomorrow

[jennyjoan]

I enjoyed it Bobbi even tho there was no audience/participation. Found it poignant and made me realise - we have got to get through this virus!.

[Bobbisox1]

That's absolutely true JJ , we can't let it beat us x

[Peter Pedant]

That should be all year round.
la dia de los muertos should be - ano de los muertos

never out of black and shaking a rosary

thinks - a time to live and a time to die - but hey who ever wrote that didnt know AB !

[Peter Pedant]

Has it been done
Beeb hacks completely unable to cope on the relig spot this morning
Rabbi Sacks dead - so we got the holy and revd bit
and then an anglican bishop and the hack said hi bish
and went onto make a complete mess of Remembrance

eighty y since the fall of France came into it .....
and I thought erm no it was a bit before that

[Peter Pedant]

// Probably just a typo - not worth getting het up about.// says andy wiv steam coming out of his ears

inclusivity - I lived the Jamaicans - Brum library did a spot on Empire ( oh god) combattatants - 2 from British Guiana
and South Efrica and Southern Rhodesia ?
oh not a mention ! oh no - - not them

Sikhs yes - when Chavasse got his double VC the sikh helper got very little
they were the ones who kicked the japanese off the tennis court at Imphal as well isnt it?
("first time the British didnt run away - we cdnt believe it" - Japanese survivor of the retreat along the road of bones)

yeah OK I remember it differently

[lady-janine]

Thought it was very good as usual but made even more poignant by lack of numbers.

[burlyshirley]

Absolutely brilliantly done, so professional. I loved Prince Charles' speech and of course the lovely Sir Tom. I cried several times, not least when that beautiful poem was read out, my Mum's favourite and I read it at her funeral. The man who sang I Vow to thee My Country made me wish I had recorded it, so I could play it again and again. The whole show did our fallen heroes proud.

[10ClarionSt]

I went to The Cenotaph last Sunday and put some flowers there. No chance of doing it this week, so I went a week early instead.

[gulliver1]

I have a couple of mates who did their National Service in the RAF also. They are still proud to have served.

[emmie]

i watched the concert on catch up, very moving. and also watch the service from the Cenotaph this morning, also very poignant, moving

[Fairlight]

One of the best I have ever seen. Tissues came out a few times.
For Burlyshirley

[rowanwitch]

Coverage of the Queen and I think the Dean of Westminster Abbey observing a quiet commemoration at the tomb of the unknown warrior. Shown before the central ceremony. Even I teared up when the soldier laid a replica of her wedding bouquet as she had done so many years ago. She looked somehow lost without Philip,and I am sure she needed a few moments alone afterwards.

[rowanwitch]

Central... Cenotaph.

[burlyshirley]

Thank you very much Fairlight. Going to listen to it now x

[Bobbisox1]

This should be our National anthem Shirley , I'm also listening to it x

[burlyshirley]

^ BEAUTIFUL ...

[burlyshirley]

I agree with that Bobbs, doesn't he sing it so very, very well ?

[Bobbisox1]

Yes he does x

[EdmundD]

https://youtu.be/pjI6IlIYaRc

[Bobbisox1]

Edmund so beautiful , thank you