Markio Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 Did anyone watch it? Based on the autobiography by Geoffrey Wellum one of the younger WWII spitfire pilots. I've only just realised i missed it (on last Tuesday). The book is outstanding. Now downloading the program from iPlayer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 I watched it on Tuesday. Very good :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKPoacher Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 I watched it on Tuesday. Very good :blink: Better than that. It was excellent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogh shooter Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 i wanna download it but my i player keeps asking me to upgrade and when i do it asks me to do it again so i will have to watch it online :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMungo Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 i wanna download it but my i player keeps asking me to upgrade and when i do it asks me to do it again so i will have to watch it online :blink: im getting the same...iv only just got this laptop so it shouldnt need upgrading...stoopid technology! The book is brilliant so il keep trying to download it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markio Posted September 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 Are you downloading it for Windows Media Player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMungo Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 Are you downloading it for Windows Media Player? yep...i got it going now...although its taking a while... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimfire4969 Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 I sky+ it, watched it the another day. Quite honestly say it is one of the best pieces on the tv in a some time. I read the book a year or so ago a great read, Geoff Wellum lives not that far from me, might go and by him a large gin and tonic and see if he can sign my book. One of the few great heros still with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrie Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 A great programme, about a great guy...I'd love to meet the man, and buy him dinner....a real hero.... The prog gave me an insight into what "they" went through durng that time....my uncle Jackie Reid volunteered in Sept 1939 for the RAF, and joined the RAFVR as a pilot trainee...... he was involved in a small way in the Battle of Britain.. he flew Hurricanes..tho' he was still being trained ...his last Sqdn was 605, County of Warwick...an Intruder Sqdn on Mossies, it was in one that he was killed 3 weeks after D day....he was 23, his co-pilot Phillips was 21... Seemingly, and according to my grandfather, they got a box of earth to bury!! Such a scarifice.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markio Posted September 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2010 Watched this last week. Very good, although as another review had said "Very truncated version of the book". And it really was truncated! I recommend the book, are better account and sense of this chaps story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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