Until the German occupation of his native Denmark in April 1940 Anders Lassen had no interest in the War. Yet over the next five years he became a highly decorated Special Forces legend and the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross.
After taking part in a mutiny on board a Danish ship, he made his way to Scotland. He first joined the Special Operations Executive before serving with the Small Scale Raiding Force, Special Air Service and Special Boat Service. He took part in the daring Operation Postmaster, off West Africa, and raided the Channel Islands and the Normandy coast. He saw most action in Eastern Mediterranean, fighting in Crete, the Dodecanese, Yugoslavia, mainland Greece and finally Italy.
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Tony Gillham is the founder of Black Cat Radio in St Neots.
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In addition to Black Cat Radio’s weekday shows, we are proud of how we have specialised shows to cover all manner of musical genres. Saturdays and Sundays typify what we mean, with Paul Rushforth and Steve Cross respectively, present a different style of breakfast show, for the three hours from 7am. Dave Thomas’s Saturday Hangover, from 10am till 1pm on Saturday, welcomes requests and dedications.
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The ever-popular Gillham Gold with Tony Gillham can be heard between 1pm until 2pm on Saturday, just before our Sports Show. Saturday evening sees John Salisbury present a show that takes you back to those evenings getting ready for the nightclub and after Ade Crampton, at 10am Jay Naselli’s Light Night Picture Show showcases the songs from the movies.