New BBC Documentaries & programs for September to mark the Battle of Britain

[wildcard]

Hi all,

Read this today - looks to be a good set of programes for September.

"The real battle of britain" - Ewan Mcgregor and his brother relieving the aircraft of the era and talking to people about that time. 

"Dig 1940" - excavating wartime artefacts

"First Light" - the drama-documentary about Geoffrey Wellum.  I really loved his book of his journey to the RAF and highly recommend it to anyone.

"BOB - the real story" - tactics, technolgies and analysis of the battle

"Culture Show" - exploring the works of art that came out from the war

"Wellington bomber" - the attempt to build a Welly in a day!

"Spitfire Women" - the women of the ATA (PS. anyone we know taking part in this?? 

"BBC archive" - original recordings and documents

This is the link to the info

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/06_june/10/battle.shtml

Can't wait! 

Regards, Mike

[SoundmanJohn]

There does indeed look to be some good stuff there. I'll be particularly interested in the Wellington one, since my dad spent quite a bit of time during WW2 fitting assorted electronics into them, amongst other things.  Almost twelve thousand built, none remaining today in working order, which is a shame. I'd love to have seen and heard a flight. Can you imagine 500 of them flying over?

Thanks for the heads-up, Mike.

Regards,

John