Girl Meets Plane

In October 2003 the Antiques Roadshow featured the
flight journals of Joan Allen who had served with the ATA
during the Second World War. But there had been
another intriguing find. Hidden in a metal flight box
under Joan's stairs was another flight journal.
It recorded the solo flight that Joan had undertaken in 1948
in a 2 seater Angus Fairchild aircraft from England to Singapore.

Diane Samuels' 'Tiger Wings' makes a leap of imagination
from this true-life source and gives wing to Joan's remarkable
achievement that might so easily have vanished into the mists
of the past.

Episode One - Girl Meets Plane
Episode Two - Vive La France
Episode Three - Middle East
Episode Four - Oranges and Pearls
Episode Five - Tiger Beer Girl

Joan Allen ................................ Honeysuckle Weeks
Wiggs/Mme Carter/Mrs Reed .... Tracy Wiles
Maud .................................. ... Christine Absalom
Mr McCowan/Hotelier................ Patrick Brennan
Becky Sharpe/Martha................ Susie Riddell
Young Woman ......................... Amaka Okafor
Young Man/Stevens ............. .... Joe Sims
Jacques/Cpt Harkness............... Sam Alexander
Gemile/Airport Mangager ........... Akbar Kurtha
SAA Pilot/Jack Roche ............... Don Gilet
Abdul ....................................... Peter Singh
Moiter/Mr Daniels ...................... Angelo Paragoso
Shreela/Clemmie Daniels ........... Deeivya Meir

Directed by Tracey Neale

Diane Samuels has written many plays for both radio and stage including the award winning 'Kindertransport' which has been produced all over the world and is a text studied in schools.