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thank you do, madame arlette. thank you very much. an honour to meet you.e gondry, the first liberated house in france tonight . it is a france tonight. it is a celebration of the freedoms that we so enjoy today. >> ellie, thank you so much for bringing us that story. what a magical moment. i can't think of anything more french than 3000 bottles of champagne there for our boys as we liberated that house behind you, ellie costello , live from normandy. really appreciate it. well, with me is still mutaz ahmed and indeed tessa dunlop . tessa, you've been tessa dunlop. tessa, you've been to normandy on countless occasions . you've been to gold occasions. you've been to gold beach, the main beach where the brits landed . brits landed. >> yeah, i have that. the terrain is fascinating, the stories fascinating . i can't get stories fascinating. i can't get enough of it. there's so many different aspects. there's a brilliant podcast series, actually. tide turns d—day by noise. that's just dropped, with paul mcgann voicing. it's absolutely spellbinding. the drama, th
thank you do, madame arlette. thank you very much. an honour to meet you.e gondry, the first liberated house in france tonight . it is a france tonight. it is a celebration of the freedoms that we so enjoy today. >> ellie, thank you so much for bringing us that story. what a magical moment. i can't think of anything more french than 3000 bottles of champagne there for our boys as we liberated that house behind you, ellie costello , live from normandy. really appreciate it. well, with me...
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and tonight madame arlette will be in cafe gondry with veterans , as there are not with veterans, asmany left now, very sadly. but madame arlette will be there at around midnight tonight to toast to those veterans with a bottle of champagne. and then after that there will be a very moving ceremony where british paratroopers serving paratroopers serving paratroopers will walk silently across this bridge, just as the men before them did. so 80 years ago. so it is going to be a really moving night of events here. camilla and also a celebration of liberation . celebration of liberation. >> ellie. what i love about the scene that's unfolding there on pegasus bridge is not just that the sun is shining. we had similar conditions in portsmouth and it really did enhance this astonishing display of sort of military pomp and pageantry . but military pomp and pageantry. but it's also just how many people are there. you spoke to those lovely kids yesterday who were in normandy, remembering veterans. you've got cross generations here. i can see in the background men, women, children. so this anniv
and tonight madame arlette will be in cafe gondry with veterans , as there are not with veterans, asmany left now, very sadly. but madame arlette will be there at around midnight tonight to toast to those veterans with a bottle of champagne. and then after that there will be a very moving ceremony where british paratroopers serving paratroopers serving paratroopers will walk silently across this bridge, just as the men before them did. so 80 years ago. so it is going to be a really moving night...
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this is madame arlette.ey arrived very quickly. and i will correct you , quickly. and i will correct you, if i may. yes, because you were in english timing. if i may. yes, because you were in english timing . i was in in english timing. i was in german timing. so 2316 and indeed two bridges. but the one at the foot of the cafe was the important one to the family, because had the germans succeeded in blowing it up, then the house would have gone up with it and perhaps the family as well. so we are very grateful to the british, who have risked their life to give us the freedom which we all enjoy today i >> -- >> and tell us about what you did with the british troops , did with the british troops, because your family did something very special to those men that came in and liberated you. >> that is absolutely right. my father had hidden his wine, his champagne and liquor so the germans would not find it, or he would be forced to sell it . and would be forced to sell it. and so in the garden, almost 3000 bottles
this is madame arlette.ey arrived very quickly. and i will correct you , quickly. and i will correct you, if i may. yes, because you were in english timing. if i may. yes, because you were in english timing . i was in in english timing. i was in german timing. so 2316 and indeed two bridges. but the one at the foot of the cafe was the important one to the family, because had the germans succeeded in blowing it up, then the house would have gone up with it and perhaps the family as well. so we...
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and earlier we spoke to madame arlette, who was just a four year old little girl.ritish troops arrived in her home. i spoke to her a little bit earlier on, very grateful to the british, who have risked their life to give us the freedom which we all enjoy today . and tell us about enjoy today. and tell us about what you did with the british troops , because your family did troops, because your family did something very special to those men that came in and liberated you. >> that is absolutely right. my father had hidden his wine, his champagne and liquor. so the germans would not find it, or he would be forced to sell it . and would be forced to sell it. and so in the garden, almost 3000 bottles. but when the british troops arrived and also to say thank you to them, daddy , they thank you to them, daddy, they said to the british soldiers who were digging the trenches , dig were digging the trenches, dig it up. it's all for you. so that's the reason why the champagne ceremony is specific to the gondry's at cafe gondry . to the gondry's at cafe gondry. >> well, patric
and earlier we spoke to madame arlette, who was just a four year old little girl.ritish troops arrived in her home. i spoke to her a little bit earlier on, very grateful to the british, who have risked their life to give us the freedom which we all enjoy today . and tell us about enjoy today. and tell us about what you did with the british troops , because your family did troops, because your family did something very special to those men that came in and liberated you. >> that is...
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it was such an honour to meet madame arlette and to hear how grateful she is to the british.e is to the british. even now, for everything that they did for her family and her country. after the 6th of june, 1944. and that was something that struck me, stephen, was the almost carnage atmosphere near pegasus bridge last night. it's been such a sombre week, rightly so. we are thinking about these great men who sacrificed everything for us and for our freedoms that we so enjoy today . freedoms that we so enjoy today. but last night was a celebration of those british airborne troops who liberated that first home in france in 1944, because that is the other side of this story. it's a story of loss and sacrifice, and it's also a story of freedom and liberation and thatis of freedom and liberation and that is what madame arlette wants to focus on the liberation of france, the liberation of western europe. and then , western europe. and then, indeed, victory in the second world war. and it all started here on d—day. >> you see that odd mix, actually, as you . i hadn't actually, as you
it was such an honour to meet madame arlette and to hear how grateful she is to the british.e is to the british. even now, for everything that they did for her family and her country. after the 6th of june, 1944. and that was something that struck me, stephen, was the almost carnage atmosphere near pegasus bridge last night. it's been such a sombre week, rightly so. we are thinking about these great men who sacrificed everything for us and for our freedoms that we so enjoy today . freedoms that...