Facing defeat in Dunkirk, the War Cabinet challenges Winston Churchill over May bank holiday weekend 1940. Stars Robert Hardy.

Over the May bank holiday 1940, Winston Churchill had been prime minister for a fortnight but was already facing up to a possibly devastating defeat at Dunkirk.

Challenged by the War Cabinet over the way he was conducting the war, Britain's fate hung in the balance...

Wartime drama by Robin Glendinning.

Churchill ...... Robert Hardy

Lord Halifax ...... Ronald Pickup.

Neville Chamberlain ...... Jeremy Child

Clement Atlee ...... Bill Wallis

Arthur Greenwood ...... Geoffrey Whitehead

John Martin ...... David Leonard

Signor Bastianini ...... Michael Fenton Stevens

Paul Reynaud ...... Ronald Oliver

General Ismay ...... Mark Buffery

Producer: Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.