In Let's Meet Again the Falklands veteran reunited Claire Wilkins, Vera Machell, Arlette Richards, Rene Cureton, Sidney Riley, Iris Bowcott, Edna Lucas, Phyllys Roberts and John Sampson who worked together at Number 11 ROF in Corporation Road during the War.

The factory employed more than 2,000 men and women manufacturing anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns from 1944-1945.

Simon showed them an old newsreel about their factory and heard the former colleagues talk about their work and the factory's renowned midnight dance parties.

The programme also featured Mel Harris from Cwmbrân who became one of the famous Bevin Boys - young men conscripted to work down the mines. He visited Big Pit in Blaenavon where he told Simon about how undervalued the Bevin Boys were, both during the war and for many decades afterwards.

This special Remembrance Sunday programme in 2005 to mark 60 years since the end of the War paid tribute to the enormous contribution to the war effort made by ordinary working people in Wales - the so-called Home Front.

The setting for the programme was a special party filmed at the Oakdale Workman's Institute at the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans. Simon introduced four different groups of people - all linked by their experiences in the Second World War - many of whom hadn't seen each other for 60 years.

They included two wartime land girls who were billeted at St Fagans Castle - Joan Emery and Lillian McGrath, reunited after 64 years.

"I recognised her at once. She had brilliant red hair and it was hard to forget her face, although I don't think she recognised me so easily," said Joan, originally from Lavernock near Penarth.

During the war the land army played a vital role helping to keep the UK fed while men were abroad fighting.

"We were billeted in the grooms' quarters in bunk beds in the stables. We had to go up to the castle house and carry back huge enamel jugs of water out to wash," said Joan.

"The food was good though - except the lunches. They were hard biscuits with margarine and pilchards mixed together. I've never eaten pilchards or sardines since," she said.

Lillian, originally from Pontyclun, remembers her time working on the land as "wonderful".

"I consider the person I was at 18 and the person I became during the war. It gave me an education," she said.