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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Davies

‘This is your victory’: Churchill’s VE Day radio address to be broadcast by Timothy Spall

Winston Churchill broadcasting to the nation on VE Day, 8 May 1945
Winston Churchill broadcasting to the nation on VE Day, 8 May 1945. Photograph: IWM/Imperial War Museums/Getty Images

Eighty years after Winston Churchill addressed the nation from Downing Street with the words “This is your victory!” a recitation of his famous VE Day speech will be broadcast as the nation commemorates the day the Allies formally accepted Germany’s surrender in 1945.

Events across four days of national UK commemorations include a military procession through central London on Monday, with tens of thousands expected to line the route from Parliament Square to Buckingham Palace, and a service at Westminster Abbey on the 8 May anniversary on Thursday.

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