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Spitfire: The People’s Plane

Before a plane could save a country, the people had to build it. This is the story of a beautiful and deadly icon of resistance, built and flown against extraordinary odds.

World Service,11 episodes

Episodes

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Phoenix
The story of the people who built the plane that won a war
18 mins09 May 2020
Crowdfunding
Communities across Britain are enlisted to raise funds for Spitfires
18 mins16 May 2020
Makeshift factories
Amid the smouldering ruins of the Spitfire factory, a new strategy emerges
17 mins23 May 2020
Makeshift wedding
Spitfire production is getting back on track, but the search for locations continues
18 mins30 May 2020
Women take control
The new Spitfires need to be flown to RAF bases desperate for reinforcements
18 mins06 Jun 2020
The Shilling factor
The fastest woman in Britain is called in to solve a dangerous problem
17 mins13 Jun 2020
New planes, new rules
Ramping up production requires another new factory - but it nearly costs Britain dearly
18 mins20 Jun 2020
Faster and higher
The plane's designers try to respond to Germany's latest fighter developments
18 mins27 Jun 2020
Teenage pilots
How does it feel to fly a Spitfire?
18 mins04 Jul 2020
Scramble
A day that changed the course of World War Two
18 mins11 Jul 2020
Introducing Spitfire: The People’s Plane
Tuppence Middleton meets the heroes who built the plane that turned back the Nazis.
3 mins05 May 2020

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