Tonight on BBC 4 at 9 o'clock!
Yes, it's a REPEAT ... yet well~worth watching!
about the short notice, but I've only just seen this.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07d2wy4 ...
One of my earliest childhood memories was of my father telling me he'd been present at the launching of the great ocean~going vessel from John Brown's shipyard on the River Clyde in 1936.
And so, for years, I'd harboured (pun intended) the notion that, someday I'd see her for myself - in all her glory.
Alas ...... that day never seemed to come. And in 1967, I learned she was to be taken out of service and berthed, indefinitely, in Long Beach, California as a tourist attraction.
"'s that!" I remember thinking at the time ...
Then, in 1992, shortly after the death of my first wife, my daughter - who, immediately after graduating from Glasgow University's Jordanhill College, had spent 3 months in the US - suggested I go on a holiday to America. Having been granted permission by my employers to take the whole of my 5 weeks' Annual Leave at once, I duly set off. And during the second week of my travels I happened to be on the USA's West Coast ... thus enabling me to fulfill my long~held dream of boarding the famous ship - which is nowadays permanently berthed at Long Beach, Los Angeles.
Therefore, for me at least, this programme is unmissable!
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