Operation Pedestal — The Convoy That Saved Malta
Saturday Night Theatre • BBC Radio • 31 August 1974 • 1 hr 28 min
In August 1942, Malta was running out of food, fuel, ammunition—and time.
Britain’s answer was Operation Pedestal: a desperate attempt to force a heavily defended convoy through the Mediterranean while German and Italian aircraft, submarines and warships tried to destroy it.
This remarkable Saturday Night Theatre production tells the story from inside the convoy, among the Merchant Navy sailors and Royal Navy men who knew that getting through could mean the difference between Malta surviving or falling.
And there is something…
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