TV heads-up

[DaveG]

Sunday night, BBC2 21:00

"Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown"

Should be interesting.

[TSR2]

I'll need to record that, Fargo is on C4 at the same time think. Cheers for the heads up Dave

[Tomliner]

Thanks for that Dave.I've read his autobiography which was fascinating.EricT

[clavel9]

It was a really, really good programme. He's a great storyteller and so charismatic. Some superb and well judged archive footage, though the digital colourising I could have done without. The only flaw was that it could have been an hour longer, or a two-parter, with more on his postwar career.

[DaveG]

Agree it could have been longer. The last 15mins or so was a bit rushed, but an enjoyable watch. Even the missus enjoyed it

[rohan]

On balance, a brilliant programme, which should have been a lot longer, and should have been more balanced in terms of his early and later career. The colourisation was ridiculous, as were the CGI "3D" photos (for example, the Vampire flying over the H.M.S. Ocean) and flying sequences. What really annoyed me though was the return of the mismatched commentary and archive sequences - talking about the Me-262 attack on the Marauder and showing a sequence of a B-17 being blown apart; another example was where Eric was talking about attacking German aircraft and the sequence showed attacks on B-24s ...

Think I'll watch it again later in the week.

[clavel9]

Yeah the "3D" photo wheeze is ubiquitous and old-hat at this stage. I missed most of the content/archive mismatch: I was probably too wrapped up in the narration to notice. (Which is a good thing.)

The leap from the Vampire to the Buccaneer was a bit too sudden when so much detail went into the development of carrier landing and testing of German aircraft.

[Dev One]

Very interesting, just watched the beginning again & liked a lot of the carrier landings.
Nothing mentioned about the M52, but thats probably because it never flew - earlier interviews with him on the M52 I suppose covered that!
He was obviously meticulous which kept him alive, although the sea nearly did for him.
Keith

[dodger]

A most enjoyable film, what a great Gentleman,

Lovely!

I did laugh when he said" no way out until it made a hole in the ground"

Roger.

[Motormouse]

Available on the iplayer thingy now --> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... nkle-brown

I missed it driving home from work at Capt Brown's old workplace

ttfn

Pete