Simon Mayo

So we will talk to Leo Woodall and then in take two, what are you up to there?

Okay.

I'm predicting it's going to be Charlie, the wonder dog, but we will find out in take two.

Um, uh,

Before we get to all those enticing reviews, in response to point four of Theo Dombrowski's email about movie cliches last week, how to disguise yourself as a denizen of movie land.

And one of them was, when you fall from great heights, discover that crashing through a tree will break your fall.

Don't, like a real person, find yourself thoroughly dead.

These are the things that get you annoyed and unrealistic in movies.

Who was number four?

Well, Ed Freshwater.

Yes, Ed Freshwater.

That Ed Freshwater.

Hi, Ed.

Says, I agreed so much with fellow church member Theo's letter a couple of weeks ago about people sitting bolt upright after nightmares, because that was the first one.

But one point of difference.

In 1944, Nicholas Alkmaid was a tail gunner in an RAF Lancaster that was shot up over Germany.

Unable to reach his parachute and with his aircraft on fire,

Alchemade took the terrible decision to jump out of the plane, leaping to his certain death from a height of 18,000 feet.

Wow.

Except he landed in a tree and survived.