Commemoration and re-enactment of Churchill’s ‘The Few’ Speech

20 August 2010 15:00 to 16:00

The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms will commemorate Churchill’s famous ‘The Few’ speech on Friday 20 August with a reading of those famous words, timed to dovetail with a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flypast over Whitehall on the same afternoon.

An excerpt from Churchill’s famous speech, ‘Never has so much been owed by so many to so few’, will be delivered from the plaza outside the Cabinet War Rooms. At precisely 15:32 pm, a fly-past over Whitehall of a Spitfire and Hurricane will follow the delivery of the speech which marks the 70th anniversary from the time it was delivered by Churchill.

Members of the public will be encouraged to explore the historic rooms and museum where a team of reenactors will stage an interactive display designed to show how an RAF operations room plotting table would have been operated during the Battle of Britain.

Location Details

Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, London

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