If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.
Cast

Matthew Macfadyen
Narrator (voice)

Charlotte Hamblin
Elisabeth Bannerman

Tom Rhys Harries
Maurice Hardstaff

Ben Lamb
Alastair Bannerman
Seamus Morrison
Glen Dickin

Samuel West
Norman Skinner
Storyline
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.
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