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by Marshal of the R.A.F.
Sir John Slessor , G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C.
Battle of Britain week provides the occasion for this reconsideration of the fateful events of 1940. Sir John Slessor looks back at the Battle in the light of Basil Collier's volume The Defence of the United Kingdom, published earlier this year as part of the official History of the Second World War.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Slessor

, by John Gough
Produced by James Crampsey with E. J. P. Mace and Gerard Slevin
' A memorable scene to the ordinary spectator, this trial was doubly interesting to the lawyers. The fame of it extended to the schools of Paris, Heidelberg, and Bologna. The German jurist
Mittenmeyer described it as the most representative specimen of the excellence of criminal trial in Great Britain. It witnessed the climax of two careers equally brilliant-the careers of two schoolfellows, namely, John Inglis for the Defence and James Moncrieff for the Prosecution. That both were in the first rank of Scotsmen no one can deny who has studied their characters and the history of the time which they helped to make.' (James Crabb Watt in his BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN INGLIS)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Gough
Produced By:
James Crampsey
Unknown:
E. J. P. MacE
Unknown:
Gerard Slevin
Narrator:
Bill Crichton
The Lord Advocate, for the Prosecution:
Ian Stewart
The Dean of Faculty, for the Defence:
James McKechnie
Madeleine Smith:
Claire Isbister
Miss Perry:
Helena Gloag
Christina Haggart:
Edith MacArthur
Thomas Kennedy:
Andy Cowan-Martin

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