my gliding talk on BBC Radio Oxford
 

I was beginning to think that nobody had listened at all to the interview, which began about 9.20 am. For some reason, music for funerals suggested by the
Cooperative Funeral service was featured before my talk about flying gliders!
Frank Sinatra, singing "My way" somebody else singing "Goodbye my friend"
and "I'll see you in my dreams!" The presenter mentioned Spirit in the Sky, but they didn't get around to playing that record.

If anybody wants to hear me talk about gliders, as if I don't do enough already on PP, you can actually still hear it by using the code BBC Radio Oxford - David Prever, Charles Nove with Horton Hospital latest, Southern Health & gliding granny, interview starts at 9.20, took place on 31 August.

That was vastly friendlier than any radio interview I've ever done!


It's not, by the way, entirely true that nobody at all listens to local radio - just the once or twice on arriving at work I've been greeted by "I heard you on the radio this morning".


(According to Amazon I've just bought the last copy from Blackwells. But I'm married to a publisher so I know that Amazon lie through their teeth about such things.)

Hiya Mary,

I found it rather hard to find the audio.

Found it now :-) it starts at 02:20:30 on the link you posted.



Very best wishes,


coldair :ok:

Mary, what we really want to know is... were you ever 'solo'? ;)


Nice talk by the way.

Jetblu,

:D:D:D

No she had a 20,000 hour pilot with her :O

Oops ! sorry Mary, I was thinking of another woman. :-)


coldair

It's really awkward to fly in a Centrair Pegasus single seat glider with more than one person on board! Nice thing about a long cross country in a single seater, you don't have to apologise for farting in the glider.....

Seriously, in that same pegasus, tail number 987, I did all three diamond awards in the UK. The 300 k predeclared triangle, the 500 k distance, and the gain of height, over Deeside gliding club in Scotland, to 20,300 feet. Attested by two separate recording barographs and the tug pilot! and the BGA. And the FAI. And in the case of the distance flying, by the club holding the registered competition. At Husbands Bosworth, they saw that day coming and we all got an early start; 50 gliders took part, 27 got round the 511 kilometer task, and I was the slowest. But I got round! Me and 987!

Excellent, Mary.
Charles Nove is a most personable and professional host, I thought.
Thanks for the heads-up.

Good interview, but shame you forgot your friends at OGC when mentioning all the other gliding clubs in the area Mary... :-(

Charles Nove used to fly at Denham if I recall.