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Afternoon Play: A Bird, a Heart, a Bicycle

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Comedy by Peter Roberts.

In December 1903 the Wright Brothers were the first men to achieve powered flight when their primitive plane took off over the dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - or were they? Could it be that an English aristocrat, one Sydney Mangot Walsh, actually launched a plane just weeks before the Wrights' more famous flight?
Alex Jones

Adam Hart-Davis on the Wright Brothers: page 36

Contributors

Comedy By:
Peter Roberts.
Unknown:
Sydney Mangot Walsh
Unknown:
Alex Jones
Producer/Director:
Peter Leslie Wild
Sydney:
Richard Derrington
Elspeth:
Alison Pettitt
Old Elspeth:
June Barrie
Ernest:
Alex Jones
Maxim/Lilienthal:
Andrew Wincott
Source: Radio Times

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