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Duration: 30 minutes

A year in the life of Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the First World War trenches. Historian Richard Van Emden takes Harry back to the battlefield to lay a memorial stone, while the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composes a new choral work to pay tribute.

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Mon 24 Nov 2008 19:30 BBC Four

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Richard van Emden

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