This is only available until the 14th of february on Iplayer streamed ,longer if you download it.
' In 1929, for the first time in history a Graf Zeppelin circumnavigated the globe. Beneath the enormous airship hung a gondola to accommodate the lucky passengers and crew for the duration of the 21-day voyage, among them the young journalist Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, reporting for the Hearst media empire. Based upon her letters and diaries and told exclusively through archival and newsreel film from the time, this film relives the incredible voyage.'
i've just watched this. how great was it?! part history, part glamour ('i'm taking all my jewellery, plenty of gloves and chanel number 5'), part media frenzy, part soap opera and part doomed love!
loved it
but it is just about possible that one of the people on this flight could still be alive ,I wonder what happened to him in the end?
*edit- highly unlikely seems the person in question was a quite a bit older than he looked but still,possible.
do you mean the stowaway boy? d'you think he got to be a hollywood film star
stowing away on an airship! awesome
edit; from wikipedia
In addition to the passengers and crew, there was also a stowaway on the flight, 19-year old Clarence Terhune, who had secreted himself onboard the Graf Zeppelin in Lakehurst, New Jersey.[10] He appears in a Gaumont Graphic Newsreel working for his passage in the airship's kitchen. Terhune was returned to the U.S. on the French liner SS Ile de France along with a number of airship crewmembers
I watched it this afternoon...it was so good, really wonderful to watch. Loved the way the airship had what looked like an old tea room. Very civilised.
I wasn't expecting the doomed love bit at all...that was so sad but made it more personal. A really excellent programme.
I watched it the other evening. Wonderful stuff.
There is a great book by Alexander Frater called Beyond the blue horizon. This also tells the tale of travel in a bygone era. He follows as well as he is able by modern transport the route taken by Imperial Airways to Australia. It was flown by Handly page Hannibal aircraft and Flying boats that landed on the Nile and on lakes etc where the passengers went ashore to top class hotels enroute. Desert landings were also made and the aircraft wheeled into forts for the night for safety. The passengers being accomodated in quite opulant conditions. A great read for the romantic armchair traveller.
'Powerless' an independent film made in 2005 which is about a family who relocates to an isolated farmhouse in west Wales from London after their father is murdered in London. The oldest sibling and older brother stays in London though. Shortly before there is a nationwide loss of power due to a terrorist strike their mother jets off to visit relatives. They are left without phone contact, water and electricity and no way of knowing what's going on as there are no radio signals even though they have a working radio and batteries as the nearest village is over twenty miles away and the nearest cottages are abandonned. A few weeks later their brother turns up as he was not able to get out of London due to road blocks and had to wait til the soldiers had gone away. He had hitched or had walked all the way to west Wales.
The family up until then were not communicating with each other. They did not know where their brother was living though their mother knew and was writing to him regularly. The powerdown brought them together as they had to pull together though the oldest sister was rather much a bully. I guess this was the reason why they were ignoring her and each other.
The brother's friend had stayed with them just at the time the power was down and left the following day not to return. It turned out he was hiding in a caravan and the brother was sneaking out stored food to bring to him.
is a 1991 romantic comedy/fantasy film about a man who must justify his life-long lack of assertiveness after he dies and arrives in the afterlife. The film was written, directed by, and stars Albert Brooks.
It also stars Meryl Streep, Rip Torn and Lee Grant.
The 1946 version, directed by Howard Hawks and staring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Based on the detective novel by Raymond Chandler. Possibly the best American film noir ever made. William Faulkner wrote the screen play.
