FACTUAL
23 February 2008
Saturday 23 February 2008 5:45-6:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Julian Putkowski presents a series on cases from the National Archives that show up Civil Service bureaucracy at its nonsensical and frequently hilarious worst.
The transcript of the court martial of Flying Officer DR Kenyon, who retracted his plane's undercarriage whilst still standing on the runway prior to taking off for a bombing mission during the 1956 Suez crisis, makes extraordinary reading.
