Post by jillymoo on Nov 12, 2008 22:33:09 GMT -1
Didn't intend watching this tonight,but it just happened to be on,and I really enjoyed it.
It's the first of what I believe is a short series (bit like Greatest Cities LOL) of celeb dads and their sons taking up challenges from the book of the same title.
Tonight was Martin Kemp and his son training in WWII planes to recreate an aerial dogfight,as took place in the Battle of Britain.
Great old B&W footage of those dark days,and I thought it good to see something positive re father and son relationships, rather than the dysfunctional situations we are all too used to being offered.
Only niggle was that the object of the exercise ,was for Martin and his son to take to the air in seperate planes with their instructors,and get in position so that they could pretend to shoot down their 'enemy'.And one of the planes had Swastikas painted on it....
Possibly guilty of glamourising warfare ,and making it seem like a game to an impressionable 15 year-old?
Anyhoos,next week is Vic Reeves & son in a tall ships race!
xx
It's the first of what I believe is a short series (bit like Greatest Cities LOL) of celeb dads and their sons taking up challenges from the book of the same title.
Tonight was Martin Kemp and his son training in WWII planes to recreate an aerial dogfight,as took place in the Battle of Britain.
Great old B&W footage of those dark days,and I thought it good to see something positive re father and son relationships, rather than the dysfunctional situations we are all too used to being offered.
Only niggle was that the object of the exercise ,was for Martin and his son to take to the air in seperate planes with their instructors,and get in position so that they could pretend to shoot down their 'enemy'.And one of the planes had Swastikas painted on it....
Possibly guilty of glamourising warfare ,and making it seem like a game to an impressionable 15 year-old?
Anyhoos,next week is Vic Reeves & son in a tall ships race!
xx
