The programme concentrated on Lancasters presumeably because it's the only airworthy bomber & so would make the most interesting television......these programmes are made for the consumption of the general public and so they're pitched at an appropriate level - 'Brother of Obi Wan flies the Lancaster!' - if you want a true historical perspective on Bomber Command then there are better documentaries to watch.
Absolutely agree.
I watched the programme with mounting dismay as "facts" were presented in a disingenuous way, leaving the viewer to draw their own conclusion, which would inevitably be wrong as a result. For example, the "facts" about area bombing would leave someone unaware of the true facts to believe that area bombing arose solely from Arthur Harris, which is not completely correct. Fortunately we did not get the usual spin about Dresden, although the reference to Churchill's now infamous memo did not reveal it had been withdrawn shortly afterwards.
The so called "surgical bomb aiming" is complete rubbish, for a whole host of reasons that anyone who has read even a small selection of books on Bomber Command in WW2 will know, and the comparison with the conditions and technology in WW2 and modern day Afghanistan are mind numbing and appear only to have been invoked simply to reinforce a left-wing perspective that the whole campaign could have concetrated on "Factories". Munitions workers are part of the armed services support - something that was sadly ignored.
The really sad thing is that there were some positives and had there been proper research it would have been potentially a very god programme but the whole thing was spoiled in my opinion by failure to present all of the facts honestly and correctly. The leaving of certain key issues in the air, presumably to allow viewers to draw their own views based on partial truths, and thus perpetuate the usual myths I find deeply offensive to the memories of those who can no longer defend themselves.
All in all yet another lost opportunity to produce an honest and accurate account of happenings which need to be seen against attitudes and conditions 70 years ago rather than against some distorted, disingenuous and completely alien Leftist-focussed agenda of the type now seen daily on the BBC.