Castles in the Sky

[Icimoi]

Just to recommend it, really. Programme on BBC2 this evening about the invention of radar, starring Eddie Izzard and with an excellent cast. Worth picking up on iPlayer.

I'd recorded this and just watched (slow Saturday in this house!). Really enjoyed it - the end scenes were quite moving. So glad to see he got some recognition, but would have liked to see if his personal life got back on track. Not sure if Google is going to answer that for me!

I enjoyed it also, but wondered what happened with him & his wife!

According to Wikipedia, he was married in 1916 in London to Margaret Robertson; they later divorced and he remarried in 1952 in Canada. His second wife was Jean Wilkinson, who died in 1964. He returned to Scotland in the 1960s. In 1966, at the age of 72, he proposed to Dame Katherine Trefusis Forbes, who was 67 years old at the time and had also played a significant role in the Battle of Britain as the founding Air Commander of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, which supplied the radar-room operatives. They lived together in London in the winter, and at "The Observatory" – Trefusis Forbes' summer home in Pitlochry, Perthshire, during the warmer months. They remained together until her death in 1971. Watson-Watt died in 1973, aged 81, in Inverness.

Enjoyed it a lot but thought some parts were a bit clunky