Episode 6: A Magnificent Woman

https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/AMY JOHNSON, born on July 1st 1903, was a celebrated Pilot and Aeronautical Engineer who first came to attention when she flew from England to Australia single handed. Her blazing career included daredevil flying in air shows, modelling, fashion and her final phase, which led to her early death in 1941, when we she was working for the ATA ferrying aircraft between airfields in the UK.  Find out more about her intriguing story with science historian Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge and hear some music linking aeroplanes to bats and moths!