How the BBC brought hope to occupied France

As the 70th anniversary of D-Day nears, a new book uncovers poignant cross-Channel letters

"Ici Londres Yvette likes big carrots Paul has some good tobacco the secretary is very pretty I want to be a godfather and the big blonde is called Bill,"

Thankfully, it all made sense to certain listeners tuned in to the BBC in occupied France in the early 1940s, conveying that weapons were to be dropped, by parachute, somewhere the resistance could find them. Other broadcasts from London contained similarly coded messages.

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