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Drama on 4: Drone Pilots

Drone Pilots

16/09/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Drone Pilots

Night shift operators fly a drone over Waziristan from a trailer in the American desert.

By Robert Myers. A veteran pilot and a video gamer, who operate a drone from a trailer in America, receive orders to stake out a family in South Waziristan.

By Robert Myers. Two night shift operators fly a drone from a trailer in the American desert. He's a much-decorated fighter pilot from rural Georgia, who has come out of retirement to make ends meet. She is a superstar gamer from New Jersey, who's just been recruited to the job of sensor.

They are working for a private corporation in New Mexico but are supervised by an imposing female Captain at a military base in Virginia, who gives them orders to stake out a family in South Waziristan.

As they circle their target, the sixty plus pilot and the twenty year old female sensor argue about music, fighting and flying.

Sound Design ..... Scott Lehrer


Producer/Director: Judith Kampfner
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