Heads up – The Dambusters

and Alan Turner (Richard Thorpe) from Emmerdale (Farm)

RIP Richard Thorpe 22/5/13.

Watching now and eight times I have heard the “N*g*er” name of the black Lab – why only say Digger in the last and final breach?

Its also on Youtube along with 633 squadron. The battle of Britain film. and some other WW2 Classics.:)

It’s on again today on Ch5. Just after mid-day.

The BBC responded quickly and comprehensively, well done.

Sadly, they confirmed that they do not have the Guy Gibson programme, nor do they have the Sheila Scott one. (nor Carl Sagan but that’s a non-aviation interest).

Available on the BBC web site are Tony Iveson, Cecil lewis and Douglas Bader. All are well worth a listen.

Nobody has yet mentioned the scene in the film when during trails of upkeep the Lancaster first dropped the bomb successfully the background music blared out and everyone congratulated Barnes Wallis, the Lancaster was a Mosquito probably flown by Shorty Longbottom at Loch Striven and the upkeep bomb was highball.

So you are saying it was a balls up. :diablo:

Dambusters

Nobody has yet mentioned the scene in the film when during trails of upkeep the Lancaster first dropped the bomb successfully the background music blared out and everyone congratulated Barnes Wallis, the Lancaster was a Mosquito probably flown by Shorty Longbottom at Loch Striven and the upkeep bomb was highball.

Oh, a 609 Squadron Typhoon pilot for you…apart from other things.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/e43c5b33

Didn’t watch it. Seen it before.

In 2009, a CD was published Dambuster Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, Label: CD41, ASIN: B002JCMZ2I. It seems to contain real interviews with Gibson and some other 617 crew members plus a recreation of the DID by Richard Todd.

Please try your local music / bookshop before the tax dodging web sites.

I never realised that Desert Island Discs could be old enough to feature Guy Gibson, but it actaully started in 1942!
What a fantastic episode that must have been, sad that it might not exist anymore.

I think you will find that it was broadcast in 1944, before the all the recordings were kept, and therefore it is not available.

Just looking for pilots on the BBC Desert Island Discs download site and it seems that they have an episode with Guy Gibson which they do not yet make available. I have emailed the BBC asking for it to be made available. Maybe other people might want to do the same.

There don’t seem to have been many pilots on DID.

Even had I known who that was I am certain I wouldn’t have confessed it here 😀

Moggy

Dambusters

and Alan Turner (Richard Thorpe) from Emmerdale (Farm)

Also tonight BBC 4 at 9.00pm “Fifties British War Films: Days of Glory” looks back at Dambusters, Cruel Sea, Coditz Story etc etc

Is that the one about the unpleasantness with Iceland some years ago? 😀

Must have seen the movie hundreds of times, but only recently noticed actors Robert Shaw, Patrick McGoohan, and Gerald Harper…

Well I saw the word ‘nigger’ used in a historical film as the name of a pet a couple of years ago – the remastered ‘Great White Silence’ about Scott’s ill fated South Pole expedition, as it was the name of the ship’s cat, who performed tricks (well, jumping). It was a silent film but BFI didn’t have a problem with flashing the cat’s name in big letters on the cinema screen;

http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/antarctic.html

http://meiringens.tumblr.com/post/583697628

… On a step ladder on the tank bank?

So – Douglas Bader was in the Bar at the Stork Hotel when Guy Gibson walked in with his dog. Is that a black Labrador? Bader asked. “No, he’s a Burmese Mountain Dog said Gibson. Oh sorry said Bader. I couldn’t see as the lights are so dim in here. What’s his name? – and will he be at Legends?