The actor revealed that he had received letters from disgruntled Islanders in Guernsey who called his programme, The Channel Islands at War, a ‘disgrace’, claiming that it implied that Islanders were collaborators and cowardly during the Occupation.
One of the letters said that he should never show his face in the islands again.
Mr Nettles is in Jersey for tonight’s launch of the DVD of the programme, which was screened on the Yesterday channel in June, and covers the invasion, occupation and liberation of the Channel Islands.
• See Friday’s JEP for the full report
