UK Channel 4 TV this week showed a newly-produced documentary about 'The Tiger Tank'. A familiar story but unusual in showing 'talking head' interviews with Tiger veterans Alfred Rubbel, Franz Lochmann, Richard von Rosen, Werner Grasse, and most interesting of all, Otto Carius. Also two British survivors of Wittmann's Villers-Bocage triumph, John Cloudsley-Thompson and Pat Dyas ( the last still badly scarred from that encounter ). Interesting to hear these men who are truly 'living history'.
Oh... I hope to see it soon on cable. The bad part is that BBC programmes take time to arrive, if they ever do so...
It's not BBC, it's the 'other side', our 'commercial' TV. Channel 4 have been criticised over here for featuring WWII too much ( a satirical magazine calls them 'Channel Fouhrer' ) but this documentary was better than many of their efforts. The only disappointing element was a re-enactment featuring one of the converted T34s from SPR - it looks all wrong. Otherwise some quite good film research - icluding some very nice newsreel footage of Wittmann.
Martin : That would have been one sweet deal if you could have caught it sooner and had it taped then with you wishes, we yanks could of had it transfered over from the PAL system........ah well..... E