Amy Johnson - Twenty Days: 5 May 1930

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Amy Johnson sets off on the first leg of her flight from Croydon near London for Vienna. "Twenty Days" is based on Amy’s own records of her flight, on contemporary press reports and the telegrams she sent home to her parents back in Hull throughout her gruelling 20-day passage in May 1930 from Croydon Airport to Darwin in Australia in her Gipsy Moth aeroplane called “Jason”. Experience the highs, the lows and the unexpected incidents that a 26-year-old Hull woman experienced on her route to making history. In an evidence-based, first-person retelling of Amy’s story from the Amy Johnson Arts Trust. Written by Hull writer and playwright Dave Windass. Amy’s part is performed by Rachel Harris.