Toast - Dan-Air

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Dan-Air was one of Britain's biggest airlines and took millions of people on their first package holidays.

So, why did such a successful business end up 'toast'?

The BBC Business journalist, Sean Farrington, and the entrepreneur, Sam White look into it.

They are joined by:

-Graham Simons - Dan-Air historian and author of the book 'The Spirit of Dan-Air'

-Jackie Stacey & James Hoffmeister - former Dan-Air cabin crew

Produced by Jon Douglas. Toast is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

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Feel free to suggest topics which could be covered in future episodes.

Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in December, where Greg Foot investigates so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread. In the meantime, Toast is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder.
0:22.6	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts and the best part is free.
0:28.1	To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires. Live forward slash fringe.
0:34.4	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:39.8	Hello and welcome to Toast, the BBC Radio 4 series, which celebrates amazing businesses that somehow still ended up toast.
0:49.1	I'm the BBC business journalist Sean Farrington, back in the room with me, as ever.
0:55.3	Resident business expert, entrepreneur, Sam White. Hello, back in the room with me, as ever, resident business expert,
1:02.1	entrepreneur, Sam White. Hello, Sam. Hey, Sean. Sam has no idea what's coming up. So her thoughts and reactions to our chosen topic are the real deal, all off the cuff. Let's get on with it.
1:10.0	Right, Sam, you've already chatting about jet- jet setting around the world to me off the microphone.
1:14.8	You're no stranger to an aeroplane.
1:16.4	I am not.
1:17.4	Business in Australia.
1:18.7	Absolutely.
1:19.8	You're not driving there.
1:21.5	Not this week.
1:22.5	I wonder if this particular airline will ring any bells with you.
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