It was obviously designed by a commitee

For me the one thing that spoiled the programme was the two presenters. If only they could have found two people with previous experience of this type of programme and knowledge of the subject. Guy was surely wasted in Germany, and would have been much better employed in London.

Any other ‘faults’ in the programme can probably be put down to it being live, and to the fact that Ray only decided to take part at the last minute. Could they have done a better job of incorporating this last minute change? I don’t know – I don’t work in TV, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt on that one.

I’m still glad that the programme was made, and that I had the chance to watch it live. The edited documentary will be shown later in the year (15th September ??), and should be a much more polished presentation. I think we’ve got the best of both worlds on this one, a programme live as it happens & then the documentary later.

I shall be helping to run our museum this Sunday, so I shall take the chance to see what our visitors thought of the programme. Will people come to the museum who wouldn’t have done so before – I certainly hope so. Will somebody be inspired to join the museum as a volunteer, to help us run museum, again I certainly hope so.

Geoff.

Just to let those who were concerned we might not get the grooming set back after last night, we haven’t yet.

Can’t make it now, my museum (I wish) needs me.

See my previous post re an edited version due to go out later this year.

From the C5 website,

‘Fighter Plane Dig Live is a co-production with The History Channel US and National Geographic International. The producers are Edwina Silver, James Cutler and Duncan Hess and the Executive Producer is Ros Franey.

The event will also be compiled into an hour documentary to be shown later in the year on Five, directed by Nick Powell.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 7550 5659 or [email]louise.plank@five.tv[/email] or Mark Ogle on 020 7258 6700 or [email]mogle@tvcorp.co.uk[/email]’

I hope that chap got the bit of the Hurricane back that Mr Suchet took from him to show Ray!

I found Edwina very distracting from the moment I saw her, with all that hair & the hard hat perched on top. Can’t help thinking they would have done better to have had Guy in London & Edwina in Germany.

But that said it was a great show, given that it was live, and I have to echo Snapper’s first post.