SkySista,
there's a program on (think Sunday mornings) on Discovery or similar, where a guy is building a kit plane, in between they go to the airfield and he shows the pre-flight checks etc.
That sounds like the series "A Plane is Born" in which Mark Evans (with more than a little help - seen and unseen) builds a Europa and learns to fly at Gloucestershire.
Watching the build was OK, but the segments on his lessons were the most entertaining bits I found. The programme has a web site at
www.aplaneisborn.com. They're selling DVDs of it there, though it does (or at least did) seem to get repeated fairly reguarly on the various Discovery channels in the UK at least.