Sunday 09 June and 18:15 on BBC Radio 4, Pick of the Week, with historian (& proud member of BCRPM) Tessa Dunlop. To listen to the podcast, visit: BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, with Tessa Dunlop.

An extraordinary week of commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and as a historian, Tessa has worked to reflect the best of those aired on Sunday's programme, alongside the selections of a veteran who served in the summer of 1944 and the views of a soldier from one of Britain's more recent conflicts, Afghanistan.

There is music, reflection.... including the irony of stolen artefacts being returned to the British Museum (Katie Razzal and Danish antiquities dealer Dr Ittai Gradel) and - at the insistence of Tessa’s mum - a slice of levity in the form of a duck's nether regions.

Presenter: Tessa Dunlop
Producer: Elizabeth Foster
Production Co-ordinators: Paul Holloway & Brigid Harrison-Draper