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By: 4th September 2014 at 08:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I think Eddie Izzard should be playing Henry Tizard, but then that's my OCD kicking in.
Moggy
By: 4th September 2014 at 08:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-For me it's down to the writing and Ian Kershaw has no track record in historical drama, as far as I am aware. The rest of the cast is strong, so here's hoping it all works!
By: 4th September 2014 at 22:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I thought it was quite good television - others will undoubtedly disagree.
Stock footage from the Battle of Britain film used to good effect, as was footage of the New Zealand based Anson Mk 1 and a Dragon Rapide
By: 4th September 2014 at 23:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Stock footage from the Battle of Britain film used to good effect, as was footage of the New Zealand based Anson Mk 1 and a Dragon Rapide
Pity about the Mosquito shot though. That ruined the whole programme for me. :rolleyes:
By: 4th September 2014 at 23:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I quite enjoyed it. I wasn't aware of the struggle he had to get his theories accepted.
By: 5th September 2014 at 05:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would and forgave some of the dramatic license. I thought the Tizard v. Linderman antagonism well drawn but was not aware that there was a mole in the team. The aerial library footage was well used and a few inaccuracies hardly mattered as they were only window dressing to the main story.
By: 6th September 2014 at 11:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Sir Watson-Watt was fined for speeding by the police using a radar 'gun'.
He wittily penned this little piece:
Pity Sir Robert Watson-Watt,
strange target of this radar plot
And thus, with others I can mention,
the victim of his own invention.
His magical all-seeing eye
enabled cloud-bound planes to fly
but now by some ironic twist
it spots the speeding motorist
and bites, no doubt with legal wit,
the hand that once created it.
By: 6th September 2014 at 14:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Enjoyable programme and this article by one who was there shows it was accurate...http://www.radarpages.co.uk/people/watson-watt/watson-watt.htm
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By: charliehunt - 4th September 2014 at 06:47
His story as one of the "fathers" of RADAR is dramatised tonight on BBC2 - Castles in the Sky.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/35/castles-in-the-sky