<strong>Lance Sieveking<a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AIRBORNE-web.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4788" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AIRBORNE-web.jpg" alt="AIRBORNE-web" width="224" height="300" /></a></strong>
<strong>375pp, 210mm x 148mm
</strong><del><strong>HB, £25</strong></del>

<strong><strong>Limited numbered edition (250 copies)
</strong></strong><strong>Heavily illustrated with over 70 photographs and drawings</strong>

Edited and annotated by Paul Sieveking

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"Amiable and haphazard memoirs… a slightly otherworldly book: a collection of agreeable stories drawn from a colourful life, all told with good humour and very little fuss. It reads like a document from a lost time… Sieveking had a long – and very influential – career at the BBC. He developed the techniques for radio features still used by the BBC today."
<em><em>Spectator</em></em>
<p class="p1">"A supremely amiable, life-affirming sort of book in its embrace of the haphazard and unexpected." <em>Fortean Times</em></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><em>Scenes from the life of Lance Sieveking, pilot, writer and broadcasting pioneer.</em></strong></p>

</form>Lance joined the BBC in its formative years and directed the first running commentaries, the first multi-studio radio drama, and (in 1930) the first television play.

<i>Airborne </i>features First World War adventures, strange phenomena and transmedia experiments.

The cast includes GK Chesterton, HG Wells, Aleister Crowley, John Logie Baird, Paul Nash, Aldous Huxley, King George V and Gertrude Stein – among many others.

With an Introduction by David Hendy.

"Richly characteristic of English autobiographies of a certain vintage, with an understated idiosyncrasy all its own… one of the things that emerges from this book is that British 'wireless' was probably more avant-garde in the 1920s than it has ever been since."
<em>Times Literary Supplement</em>

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<p class="p1">On dipping in at any point in the text you come upon lively accounts of surprising events... and want to read more!
<em>Joan Bakewell</em></p>
<p class="p1">An absorbing story and an invaluable record.
<em>Antony Jay</em></p>

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