It’s seventy years since Amy Johnson made her epic flight to Australia, a journey we’ve been following on Woman’s Hour. If you were listening earlier this week, you would have heard how she survived a sandstorm in the desert, before making her way to Baghdad. And that she had the chance to beat the England to Australia record. Which she did.
Amy Johnson got there in six days. Bert Hinkler, the record holder, took eight. And the airwaves were full of it, as this archive reconstruction of her journey shows.
