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The Magic Carpet

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The last in a seven-part serial about the R101 by DAVID BEATY
At nine minutes past two in the morning on Sunday 5 October 1930, battered by wind and rain, R101 crashed into Beauvais
Ridge, in northern France. Now, in the aftermath, would come the nation's mourning - and also questions about the reason for the greatest aviation disaster of its day ...
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Beaty
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Narrator:
Conrad Phillips
Binks/Booth/Bairstow:
Phillip Manikum
Bell/Teed:
Elwyn Johnson
Leech:
Pavel Douglas
Disley/Reporter:
Richard Curnow
Lily:
Sarah Benfield
Olive:
Ingrid Hafner
Gloria:
Sarah Jane Bickerton
Kirk:
Norman Bowler
Pomfret:
Rex Holdsworth
Announcer/Simon:
James Kerry
McWade/Attorney-General:
John Linstrum
Source: Radio Times

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