Summary: Collection of interviews, recorded for a commemorative television programme, with surviving members of a team of British workers who constructed a Wellington bomber in record time in 1943 at the Vickers-Armstrongs factory at Broughton (Flintshire), as part of a propaganda campaign orchestrated by the British Ministry of Information via the Crown Film Unit documentary short "Workers' Week End".
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TV 230/1 (DVCAM) Interviews with Eileen Gledhill and Betty Weaver. Exterior of Broughton factory. Interview with Bill Anderson (Part 1).
TV 230/2 (DVCAM) Interview with Bill Anderson (Part 2). Interviews with Paddy Dale, Peter Tootle, James Tootle and Bob Wilson.
TV 230/3 (DVCAM) Interviews with Constance Motram, Ben Motram, Melanie Beasley, Margaret Hunt, Pauline Hughes and Ron Johnson. Interview with Hilda Dodd (Part 1).
TV 230/4 (DVCAM) Interview with Hilda Dodd (Part 2). Interviews with Wilfred Williams and Richard Martin.
TV 230/5 (DVCAM) Exterior and interior shots of Broughton factory. Airbus Beluga aircraft. Interview with Tony Williams. Exterior of the factory at night. Cinema sequence.
TV 230/6 (DVCAM) Interview with Flight Sergeant Jock Calderwell and Sheila Calderwell. Brooklands Museum. Interview with Sir Max Hastings.
TV 230/7 (DVCAM) Interview with Flight Lieutenant Rupert "Tiny" Cooling of RAF 9 Squadron.
TV 230/8 (DVCAM) The Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede.
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Object_Number:TV 230
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
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Production Date:2010
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Production Details: BBC 4 (Production sponsor)
Peter Williams Television (Production company)
