In celebration
Happy 100th Birthday Dame Vera Lynn TV BBC Two, scheduled for March
As she reaches her personal centenary, Dame Vera Lynn and her daughter, Virginia, look back over a remarkable life with the help of private family records and footage from the archives. These help to chart Lynn’s first steps on the stage as a schoolgirl, her wartime experiences and her career highlights, such as becoming the first UK performer to have a US number one, in the 1950s. Those paying tribute to a singer forever associated with We’ll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover constitute a varied cast, among them Sir Paul McCartney, Barry Humphries, Miriam Margolyes and, of course, Second World War veterans.