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Battle of Britain: 3 Days That Saved the Nation - Channel 5 UK, Tues 7th July, 9pm

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Battle of Britain: 3 Days That Saved the Nation - Channel 5 UK, Tues 7th July, 9pm

Channel 5 Tuesday 9:00 pm, 7 July 2020
Season 1 | Episode 1 | Length 1 hour
Dan Snow and Kate Humble relive three days which changed the course of history. The 15th August 1940, the day when the Battle of Britain started in earnest.
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Oh for the days of Raymond Baxter.
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Originally Posted by FantomZorbin
Oh for the days of Raymond Baxter.
Quite..
Most of it good, but the presenters......
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I thought it was pretty dire really.........very disjointed presentation, and terrible presenters, or rather terrible script and production. Quite why they thought Kate Humble would be a good choice for this is anyone's guess!!
Apart from the Duxford warbird footage including the in-cockpit shots of John R flying the Blenheim etc., I really didn't think there was much to write home about.



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I have no strong feelings either way about Kate Humble, she's a professional rentagob presenter, but I guess her dad being a test pilot for Hawker meant she was top of the list.

Oops, sorry, grandfather.

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Quite a long time ago Kate Humble did a programme on Bill H, her grandfather, which was fine. What I saw of the programme this week was pretty dire, I agree, but I keep having to remember that we aviation people are not the target audience of those programmes, so we shouldn't expect too much.
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Only seen 30 mins so far, but as they featured 3 people who actually took part, and not just the well known names was good to watch. 99.99 % of all the people are only known to their direct families and was good to see the 'small; cog featured.

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I agree that it makes a change to hear about some lesser known names. The presenters are simply ghastly, maybe Jeremy Clarkson could have made a better fist of it !
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What grips me is the presenters constantly wittering on about the 'Nazi' aircraft......what is wrong with referring to the enemy as the Luftwaffe!
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I thought that Gordon Ramsay was lined up to present this programme .....
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Originally Posted by Tony Mabelis
What grips me is the presenters constantly wittering on about the 'Nazi' aircraft......what is wrong with referring to the enemy as the Luftwaffe!
I thought we were at war with Germany not a political party!!
I think this use of Nazi has become prevalent on T.V.
After all we wouldn't want to offend the nice Germans. It was those nasty Nazi's that were the problem.
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Any HD TV clips featuring those gorgeous Mk1a Spitfires from Duxford do, and probably always will, give me goosebumps. But, oh deary deary me who in their right mind chose those presenters ?
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Originally Posted by Tony Mabelis
What grips me is the presenters constantly wittering on about the 'Nazi' aircraft......what is wrong with referring to the enemy as the Luftwaffe!
Yes I can't stand that either. We were at war with Germany because of what its government had done and was doing. That it was a National Socialist (Nazi) government did not mean that all Germans were members of that party, any more than not all the UK citizens of today are members of the Conservative party.
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I often wonder what kind of a fist the armchair critics on here would make of a programme with this remit. I could hazard a guess and it isn't favourable.
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Don't forget, most of us on here know more about it than Joe Public. But the programme wasn't made for us. If it brings an appreciation of the history and sacrifice before a new, and younger, audience, the programme has done its job.
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Yes I can't stand that either. We were at war with Germany because of what its government had done and was doing.
Indeed. One recalls a programme (probably BBC) which included Chamberlain's famous "declaration of war" broadcast.

The recording was cut short, so it read: "I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war." The final two words: "with Germany." were cut!!
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Dan Snow, the snowflake historian - Having previously admitted to telling his daughter that women fought in Spitfires during the war because he couldn't face telling her that they weren't able to fly with the RAF, if she watches the programme she'll be asking him why they weren't featured....... Idiot. Maybe his daughter could have done a better job, couldn't have been much worse.

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I have no particular beef with Dan Snow - although I didn't know about what he did or didn't tell his daughter - but it always bugs me when he's described as a "Historian".
He's not, he's got a History degree from Oxford, which is a far higher qualification than I've got, but it doesn't make him a historian.
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Originally Posted by CAEBr
Dan Snow, the snowflake historian - Having previously admitted to telling his daughter that women fought in Spitfires during the war because he couldn't face telling her that they weren't able to fly with the RAF, if she watches the programme she'll be asking him why they weren't featured....... Idiot. Maybe his daughter could have done a better job, couldn't have been much worse.
I wonder why he didn't tell her about the fantastic contribution made by the A.T.A who flew anything and everything that had wings.
Probably never heard of them!!!
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Episode three and luvvie Dan is at it again.....we were at war with GERMANY !
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