Episode Details

Guest: David Fairhead

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 29th of August 2022

Released:  30th of August 2022

Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 30 seconds

In this episode of the WONZ Show, Dave Homewood chats with British filmmaker David Fairhead, who was the director, producer, editor and main interviewer behind the new feature film ‘Lancaster’ which opens in selected New Zealand cinemas on the 1st of September 2022.

David and his fellow director/producer Anthony Palmer have followed up their brilliant 2018 film ‘Spitfire’ with this equally beautiful and enthralling documentary looking at the greatest four-engined bomber aircraft of World War Two, the Avro Lancaster.

The story of the aircraft, the roles and operations if flew on, the people who flew them and the groundcrew are told through interviews with 38 veterans connected with the type. These include men from across the British Empire who were attached to the RAF, and among them we see New Zealand’s own bomber hero, the late Ron Mayhill DFC.

David is a lifelong aviation enthusiast, and has worked in the television and film industry for for thirty years, including working on many of Britain’s best space documentaries. He talks passionately about the Lancaster, the Spitfire and the subject of his next project, the Mosquito. And David reveals lots of fascinating stories from behind the scenes of the making of ‘Lancaster’.

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