A bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire.

Operation Seven Alpha was a daring yet little-known operation that took place during the early days of the Burma Campaign. This is the story of the men and the aircraft that took part.

Kaplan describes aircraft carriers, from the first ramshackle seaplane carriers to nuclear-powered vessels, and the planes that have flown from them - Swordfish biplanes, Hellcats, Hornets, Hawkeyes and Sea Harriers.

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.