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{{Infobox FHODS Production
| title = Lest We Forget: 80 Years On
| image = [[File:Lest We Forget (2025).jpg||300px|center]]
| caption = Lest We Forget promotional image
| dates = 17 - 18 October 2025
| venue = [[The Tower Theatre]]
}}

The [[Folkestone-Hythe Operatic and Dramatic Society]] [[Youth Section]] presented ''Lest We Forget: 80 Years On'' on 17th - 18th October 2025 at [[The Tower Theatre]], Folkestone. An original production by the FHODS Youth Section.

=Foreword=
Thank you for coming to support the FHODS Youth Section.

They have worked over the last few weeks on developing this show, to celebrate 80 years since the end of World War II.

They have researched the topics of World War I and II, and found stories about those who lived it, visited the Elham trenches, and had a session where war memorabilia was brought in. From this, they have written presentations, imagined letters, original songs and poems. They also found songs and poems that they felt connected with war and the feelings they can bring. The group have directed everything themselves, and all the work is their own, including running the tech.

Thank you again for coming, and we hope you enjoy the evening.

'''[[Michelle Hartley]]''' ''Youth Section Co-ordinator''

=The performances=
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* '''The British Grenadiers''' by Edwin Franko Goldman
**Performed by [[Thomas Arnold]]
* '''Sonya Butt'''
**Written and performed by [[Rosie Douse]], [[Millie Forrest]] and [[Summer Bradley]]
* '''Letter to Dad'''
**Performed by [[River Griffin]]
* '''Make You Feel My Love''' by Bob Dylan
**Performed by [[Ophelia Edmunds]]
* '''Sargeant Stubby'''
**Written and performed by [[Harry Vignaux]]
* '''Do you understand conflict?'''
Written and performed by [[Fry Fry]]
* '''Letters of Love'''
**Written and performed by [[Thomas Arnold]] and [[Millie Forrest]]
* '''I'm Here''' by Kezia Gill
**Performed by [[Evie Milton]]
* '''Irena Sendler'''
**Written and performed by [[Lottie Binks]]
* '''Ada Chell - D-Day Memories'''
**Written and performed by [[Lauren Murrell]]
* '''Somewhere Only We Know''' by Keane
**Performed by [[Eden Prescott]]
* '''A Daughter without a Father'''
**Written and performed by [[Rosie Douse]]
* '''Operation Manna'''
**Written and performed by [[Jack Willcox]]
* '''Chair Duet'''
**Written and performed by [[Charlotte Jury]] and [[Erin Murphy]]
* '''Perhaps''' by Vera Brittain
**Performed by [[Fry Fry]], [[Isaac Tomlin]], [[Rosie Douse]] and [[Evie Milton]]
* '''Battleground'''
**Written and performed by [[Ophelia Edmunds]]
**Music track by [[Vixen Roylance]]
* '''The White Cliffs of Dover''' by Vera Lynn
**Performed by [[Summer Bradley]]
* '''A Pigeon named Joe'''
**Written and performed by [[Harry Vignaux]]
* '''Legacy'''
**Written by [[harry Vignaux]]
**Performed by [[Thonas Arnold]]
* '''The Great Dictator''' by Charlie Chaplin
**Performed by [[Rosie Douse]], [[Erin Murphy]], [[[[Charlitte Jury]], [[Eden Prescott]], [[Summer Bradley]], [[Millie Forrest]], [[Evie Milton]] and [[Harry Vignaux]]
* '''Mundas Īnfrāctus'''
**Written and performed by [[Isaac Tomlin]]
* '''Mary O'Connell Biaconi'''
**Written and performed by [[River Griffin]]
* '''The Christmas Truce'''
**Written and performed by [[Erin Murphy]], [[Eden Prescott]] and [[Evie Milton]]
* '''Belleau Wood''' by Garth Brooks
**Performed by [[Isaac Tomlin]]
* '''In Flanders Field''' by John McCrae
**Performed by [[Rosie Douse]], [[Millie Forrest]] and [[Summer Bradley]]
* '''Hallelujah''' by Leonard Cohen
**Performed by [[Ophelia Edmunds]]
* '''The Guns fell quiet'''
**Written and performed by [[Jack Willcox]]
* '''My Dear Jean'''
**Written and performed by [[Fry Fry]]
* '''We'll Meet Again''' by Vera Lynn
**Performed by [[Summer Bradley]]
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=Production Team=
* '''Lighting Design''': [[Chris Willcox]] and [[Vixen Roylance]]
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