D-Day: The Tide Turns

10. Journalists on the Front Line

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Episode notes

Allied journalists parachute into France and land on the beaches with the invasion force. Legendary reporter Martha Gellhorn stows away on a ship, determined to beat her estranged husband, Ernest Hemingway, to the D-Day scoop. And a homing pigeon known as Gustav brings the first news of D-Day to Britain…


A Noiser production, written by Edward White.


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