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Live from Biggin Hill Airport

Jeremy Vine broadcasts live from Biggin Hill Airport in Kent to mark 75 years since the Battle of Britain and to look at the modern-day RAF and consider its future.

75 years on from the Battle of Britain, today we look at the modern-day RAF, and consider the organisation's future.

We're live at Biggin Hill airport in Kent which was a key RAF base during that battle in 1940.

We'll speak to one of the most senior people in the air force - the man responsible for all of its day-to-day operational activity.

We'll discuss whether Britain should be involved in air strikes in Syria, and whether drone warfare is the future.

Politics aside - we'll marvel at a remarkable engineering achievement: the Typhoon fighter jet. One will be landing here live during the programme. We'll meet its pilot and support staff, and hear what happened when the BBC's Sophie Raworth took a flight in one.

We'll also learn more about the men and women who monitor every square inch of Britain's airspace.

And - if you live in a scenic part of the UK like the Welsh valleys - do you love it or hate it when low-flying jets practice overhead?

2 hours

Last on

Fri 18 Sep 201512:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Roy Orbison

    Oh, Pretty Woman

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
    • 16.

  • Florence + the Machine

    Queen Of Peace

    • Island.

  • Buddy Holly

    True Love Ways

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.

  • David Bowie

    Life On Mars?

    • EMI.

  • Bananarama

    Robert De Niro's Waiting

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Livin' Thing

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Whitesnake

    Here I Go Again

    • 30Th Anniversary Collection CD1.
    • COPY CON.
    • 9.

  • The Everly Brothers

    Cathy's Clown

    • Acuff-Rose Opryland Music: 50th Anniv.
    • Acuff-Rose Opryland.

  • Stereophonics

    I Wanna Get Lost With You

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • OneRepublic

    Counting Stars

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • The Andrews Sisters

    Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

    • Universal Music Publishing Group: 20th Century Pop 1925-1977 CD2.
    • COPY CON.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Sep 201512:00
    BBC Radio 2