Michael Bradley

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194 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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Sunday Miscellany · Letter from Okinawa, by Michael Bradley · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

Or the United States Air Force, but whichever.

They always make me wince with their ear splitting roar.

For some reason they bring to mind the malevolent dementors in the Harry Potter stories.

Shrieking, flying spectres which terrify the very people they're supposed to protect.

If it's not fighter planes disturbing the skies, it's

Then it's helicopters and ospreys.

The latter.

Which look more like ungainly bumblebees than the sleek bird of prey they're named after, are no doubt a technological marvel.

They take off and land like helicopters.

But once airborn fly like planes.

Still

For all that, I'm not a fan.

I'm uneasy at what all this military buildup portends.

Perhaps, I tell myself, my fray nerves are

are as much down to middle aged angst as to any objective reality.

Sure wasn't my own father constantly on edge when he was my age.

Although his objective reality, raising a family in troublesera Belfast

was itself hardly stress free.

So I'm hoping against hope that that

Or the emptying nest?

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