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🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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It's Sunday Chops time again and this week we're offering up double portions. In this episode, Hannah and Mickey met author Jo Wheeler to talk about her new book The Hurricane Girls, which tells the tales of many of the women who flew planes for the ATA during the Second World War. Plus, Candy Adkins, the daughter of one of those pilots, joined in the chat too. Herewith, the dope about them...
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0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to Sunday Chops. |
0:38.0 | It's Hannah again. |
0:39.0 | I know, they've let me go wild with the talking this weekend. |
0:42.0 | Last week, on the hottest day of the |
0:44.4 | year so far Mick and I went to the beautifully air-conditioned Imperial War |
0:49.3 | Museum in London to talk to Joe Wheeler the author of a brilliant new book The Hurricane Girls |
0:56.0 | and we had a great day to be honest Imperial War Museum were worth a visit |
0:59.7 | plus picked up some great pictures of some women at Greenham Common in the gift shop. Bonus. |
1:06.0 | But back to that interview, Joe's book is about women who were in the ATA and flu planes during the Second World War and as if talking to Joe |
1:14.8 | wasn't excited enough. We also spoke to Candy Adkins whose mom Jackie Mogridge |
1:20.5 | was one of those women and in fact was one of just five women to get |
1:24.6 | her wings exciting. Anyway we had a great time talking to them so that's what this |
1:29.9 | chops is. Just before you tuck into that, just to let you know. We have a second |
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