Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

Target Practice

16 April 2010
Produced by Katie Burningham and Michael Sanders

A portrait of the range workers at RAF Wainfleet who spend their time building and monitoring targets that are destined for destruction.

A co-production by Katie Burningham and Michael Sanders.

Press

"Fighter pilots use RAF Holbeach, on the Lincolnshire Wash, for target practice; birds, oblivious to all the explosions, use it for nesting. In this offbeat documentary, workers from Holbeach talk about the strangeness of a place given over to warfare and wildlife."

**** Susan Jeffreys, The Daily Mail, 10.04.10

  • Staff dancefloor at RAF Holbeach, photo by Michael Sanders