One Night in November - Belgrade Coventry
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Topic started by Fisherman's Friend (skinner70)
Hello. I am a thirtysomething professional man living in Earlsdon, Coventry. I work in social policy development and I love running, cycling, walking, the sea, theatre, cinema and spirituality. Just started dating Patrick and that's rather fine.
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skinner70Sat 15/03/08 09:29 |
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I went to see this play last night which is about the wartime bombing of Coventry. It is really very good. Particularly realistic special effects at one point set off all of the alarms and forced the theatre to be evacuated; but this felt genuinely like 'audience participation' in the most spontaneous sense. |
lespSat 15/03/08 11:42 |
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I recall once talking with a guy who was a dentist and in WWII did fire-watching duties. He was at a high point about 10 miles SE of Crewe on the Cheshire/Staffs border. He recalled seeing from there the flames of Coventry under attack. |
paulbrettSat 15/03/08 12:04 |
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quoting > "The play raises the contentious idea, that Churchill knew Coventry was going to be bombed but let it happen so as not to tip off the Nazis that the brits could read their codes" |
paulbrettSat 15/03/08 18:07 |
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Just found a reference to the idea that Churchill failed to stop the raid on Coventry - it suggests that this story has been going around a long time, though I had not heard it before: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/38/a3142838.shtml |
skinner70Sat 15/03/08 23:27 |
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I find that rather sad. Wordsworth described Coventry as the finest Medieval city in England. Admittedly, if suffered with the Industrial Revolution; but whereas we remember the tragedy of the destruction of beautiful cities like Dresden; it is sad that we don't remember the destruction of our own heritage. Apart from the fact that over 1000 people died. |
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