Battle of Britain-three days that saved the nation

[and31]

Started last night on channel 5
Dan snow and Kate humble
It’s actually very good.very sympathetically done and well researched.
Lots of Hurricanes in it as well which is nice!
Part three tomorrow at 9.00pm

[Yertis]

I was impressed that all I saw were Hurricanes, although I admit I didn't watch right through. What was that little museum Dan was presenting from though? The Hurricane and 109 looked like half-scale wooden mock-ups.

[Eric Mc]

I watched it last night and enjoyed it. It was nice to get some new tales from the Battle.

I think a session with my "Battle of Britain" DVD and a bottle of Spitfire Ale will be required very soon.

[Dont like rolls]

Planning on catching up on this tonight....has Dan Snow "Discovered" anything yet (eg, written in some books he read) ?

[aeropilot]

Nice clips of the stuff from Duxford and in flight shots from inside the Blenheim with John flying it.......

But......Snow and Humble are poor presenters, or rather they have been given a poor script and production to present. I found it very hit n miss and jumps about too much, but then, I'm not the target audience for something like this.
Nice to see the mention of Flt Off Elspeth Henderson and her MM, but shame they referred to Sgt's Joan Mortimer and Helen Turner as "and two others".....

I can remember reading 40+ years ago, the first hand accounts of the Biggin Hill WAAF's during the raids on Biggin on the 18th August in Alfred Price's book Hardest Day.

[coppernorks]

more cheapo ww2 guff that;s been done to death in myraid other progs ,
if its not re-running ww2 its wall-to--wall famous murders, such visual merde comprises 70% of C5's output.

at least the anodyne snow knows what he's talking about, the personality-free humble is mere eye-candy
and a shameless presenter for hire.

[aeropilot]

coppernorks said:

at least the anodyne snow knows what he's talking about, the personality-free humble is mere eye-candy
and a shameless presenter for hire.

Humble's Grandfather at least was a factory test pilot for Hawker's during WW2 and just afterwards though, so she does have a more direct connection. Still not a good choice for this production though.

Snow should know what he's talking about...........sadly, this production isn't showing much evidence of that so far.

[Yertis]

aeropilot said:

Humble's Grandfather at least was a factory test pilot for Hawker's during WW2 and just afterwards though, so she does have a more direct connection. Still not a good choice for this production though.

Snow should know what he's talking about...........sadly, this production isn't showing much evidence of that so far.

Bill Humble... well I never. I have a lovely pic of him in a Tempest.

[The Mad Monk]

Enjoyed the programme. persuaded to watch it. Don't like either Dan Snow or Kate humble - both without talent.

Come to that, didn't enjoy the format. Didn't like Snow making that man read out his relatives name in the National Archives (was it) in order to make him cry.

Despite so many negatives, still watched it, and I will watch tonight's.

[aeropilot]

Yertis said:

aeropilot said:

Humble's Grandfather at least was a factory test pilot for Hawker's during WW2 and just afterwards though, so she does have a more direct connection. Still not a good choice for this production though.

Snow should know what he's talking about...........sadly, this production isn't showing much evidence of that so far.

Bill Humble... well I never. I have a lovely pic of him in a Tempest.

And her maternal Grandfather was also a RAF WW2 pilot, who after being shot down was being held in Stalag Luft III at the time of "The Great Escape".

[essayer]

It was moving to hear of the ground crew waiting for a pilot who’d never return. Something I’d never really thought about before

[Krupp88]

Lost me at the hyperbolic title of the programme. Would rather spend the time re-reading the 'Battle of Britain Then and Now' than listen to those two gobs for hire wittering on.

[Krupp88]

essayer said:

It was moving to hear of the ground crew waiting for a pilot who’d never return. Something I’d never really thought about before

I imagine it must have been a common sentiment across all commands, thinking of the Bomber Command groundcrew working on (for the time) complex aircraft in all conditions with huge pressure to achieve maximum availability of aircraft and all of a sudden 'their' crew never return.

[sociopath]

essayer said:

It was moving to hear of the ground crew waiting for a pilot who’d never return. Something I’d never really thought about before

My uncles was ground crew, having to scrape up bodies (sorry I'm sure there's a better way of saying that) of those injured flight crew who crash landed screwed him up for the rest of his life