Close to the Enemy BBC2

[Peter Brydon]

I wonder if anyone else has any thoughts on this BBC2 drama Series on Thursday evenings ?

The hero ( if you can call him that ) is a member of T Force who at the end of WW2 is trying to get a captured German Scientist to work for the British Government and design a new aircraft engine that will break the sound barrier.

I had rather hoped that after a ( what I thought was ) poor beginning the series might improve, but in my opinion the whole story just gets more and more bizarre and unbelievable.

The best thing so far is that some scenes have been shot at the old airfield at Hooton on the Wirral and presumably a fee has been paid for the use of the old hangers for which there is a fund for their restoration and any fee will hopefully be added to that fund.

You do wonder if some of the stuff on TV would ever have made it there if the writer had been an unknown.

P.B.