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Aerial Footsteps
Just over 200 years ago, the first international flight took place across the English Channel. The two intrepid balloonists took off from Dover and arrived trouserless, but unscathed, in France to a hero's welcome. A well-trousered Anthony Smith commemorated the flight in appropriate fashion.
Producer TIM GROUT-SMITH BBC Bristol

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