Extra Episode - SEX, SPIES &amp; LIES My father’s suspicions about the aircraft crash that killed the grandfather of award-winning historical author Jessie Childs, echoed her family history. She contacted me to discuss the remarkable career of international diplomat Stephen Childs, who died on the fateful flight out of Iran on January 18th, 1943 and featured in Episode 1 of ‘Blighty Thank God’. She also shared an official file on the crash that spotlighted the tangled affairs of another passe...

‘Blighty Thank God’ is a 12-part podcast, based on the ‘lost’ diary of WW2 RAF pilot Flt. Sgt. Ron Chapman, 22, who served in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.&nbsp;Hosted and produced by his journalist son Neil Chapman it tells some of stories he uncovered when he researched the diary, found 30 years after his father died.&nbsp;The accompanying website - www.blightythankgod.co.uk - contains the complete diary, context notes, maps, photographs and background material.The project is a tribute to the thousands of reluctant WW2 warriors from many nations.&nbsp;Too many of them never made it home to their Blighty.