A Play, A Pie & A Pint - The Beaches Of St Valery

By Stuart Hepburn

In June 1940, Churchill hailed the “miracle of Dunkirk,” when all 350,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were evacuated to safety.
But for the men of 51st Highland Division, there was no miracle. Sacrificed in a secret political deal, Churchill ordered them to stay and fight to the last bullet.
Against overwhelming odds, 9,000 Scotsmen surrendered at St-Valery-en-Caux, and were marched to POW camps in Poland.
All of them were betrayed.
Some of them escaped.
One of them fell in love.

The Beaches Of St Valery is his story.

Stuart Hepburn has been acting and writing screenplays professionally for over 30 years. The research he carried out for “The Beaches Of St Valery” formed part of his doctoral thesis for which he was awarded a PhD from Glasgow University in 2015.