Won't Concorde have already landed then - and been shown on National BBC Two, News 24 and on BBC World?
Presumably the programme will concentrate on the people (like my mum) who worked for Rolls Royce/BAC in Bristol, where parts of the 'plane were designed and built.
BBC West opted out this evening to show A Question of Sport, so the programme about Concorde has ended up displacing Airport, slightly bizarrely.
Won't Concorde have already landed then - and been shown on National BBC Two, News 24 and on BBC World?
It might have done - but since the thing was built in Filton, I reckon it's worth the half an hour extra to talk to the people who made it in the first place. Something the national news *might* do, but they'll have trouble finding time to do it properly.
For the historical record, it was Anthony Wedgewood Benn who was very much championned the production of Concorde. He did this because it meant jobs for his constituents.
For the amount of money that was spent on the development of Concorde, the whole of the British Railway network could have been completely electrified several times over. However the preference was to go for the option that would benefit only a small minority of society who needed the lest benefit,
ie extremely wealthy executives, as opposed to the ordinary average working man or woman who commutes by rail each day.
I do hope that Points West will consider these points when looking back on this technological white elephant.
For those of you that are interested in Concorde, there is a BBC News Special on Friday at 1530 on BBC News 24 and BBC World with Jon Sopel. If N24 are producing it - which is highly likely with it being a UK-focused special - I hope it's better than that one we had a couple of weeks ago 6 months after the fall of Saddam Hussein - that had a short video of Saddam's statue falling accompanied by the overnight titles music, and even that was repeated for open and close.