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Digging For Britain – Hurricane Recovery BBC Four tonight

I am reliably informed that the recovery of a Battle of Britain Hurricane will feature on Digging For Britain tonight, BBC Four, at 21.00.

More of the back story here:

http://www.harveymills.com/blog-2/digging-the-hurricane/

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By: BlueNoser352 - 23rd March 2016 at 05:36

Some good soul please think of us over here in the colonies and put the fine program on YOUTUBE….. love programs like this …Time Team etc !!! Much thanks !

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By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd March 2016 at 21:09

No idea.

Good job the BBC didn’t notice the blatant Key Publishing ‘product placement’ though! 😉

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By: SimonSpitfire - 22nd March 2016 at 15:01

Who was the chap speaking about the dig, he seemed to have done that sort of thing before?

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By: Sopwith - 18th March 2016 at 11:35

The Hurricane flypast nearly didn’t happen, and was somewhat ‘restrained’, as the dig was a few days post the Shoreham crash and Shoreham airport was pretty much almost in view from the site itself. Thus, historic aircraft performing in the area was a somewhat sensitive issue.

Ah that accounts for it, I did think it was a little sedate compared to normal flypasts, so in that case good then that it was done with sensitivitiy.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 18th March 2016 at 10:46

The Hurricane flypast nearly didn’t happen, and was somewhat ‘restrained’, as the dig was a few days post the Shoreham crash and Shoreham airport was pretty much almost in view from the site itself. Thus, historic aircraft performing in the area was a somewhat sensitive issue.

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By: mmitch - 18th March 2016 at 10:32

Available on BBC IPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b073mr9r/digging-for-britain-series-4-2-east
Starts at 49 minutes.
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By: Sopwith - 17th March 2016 at 23:28

Thanks for the head up. Hurricane flypast was nice touch.

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By: AlanR - 17th March 2016 at 22:10

Nice to see the family of the pilot on site. Would have liked to have seen more of the dig.
Maybe it will go onto Youtube ?

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By: Arabella-Cox - 17th March 2016 at 16:12

For some reason I cant get in to edit, but I think the time should be 21.00

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By: AlanR - 17th March 2016 at 15:30

Already set to record 🙂

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