Saturday evening BBC4 'foreign police series' 2100 slot starting 9 October: 'Paris Police 1900'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10840070/"Showing a very different version of Belle Époque Paris, we enter the city upon the sudden death of President Félix Faure, and rising anarchy amid the prominence of the far right and anti-Semitism. Called out of retirement to restore order, the police chief will cross paths with a corrupt cop, an ambitious young detective and a courtesan enlisted as a spy. Created by comic book artist Fabien Nury, this is a violent, gritty and gripping drama."
"Paris, France, 1899. The corpse of an unknown woman is found in the river Seine. The investigation will push a young ambitious inspector to discover a heavy state secret."
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Aviation nostalgia:
Sat 9 Oct, 'Great Movies Action', 1050: 'A Yank in the RAF' (1941)
Blatant British effort to enlist support of still neutral US audiences; but gists suggest there may be quite a few contemporary flying sequences
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034405/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1"An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend."
"Tyrone Power is a pilots' pilot, but he doesn't believe in anything beyond his own abilities. He gets into trouble by flying a new fighter directly to Canada instead of to New York and letting it be towed across as the law demands, but is offered a new job ferrying bombers to war torn England. While on a layover he finds Betty Grable, an old flame, has joined the RAF as a member of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in her attempt to fight for democracy. Power joins up to impress her and in the course of his several missions begins to develop an understanding of what they are fighting for."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Yank_in_the_R.A.F.
"A Yank in the R.A.F. is a 1941 American black-and-white war film directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power and Betty Grable. Released three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into World War II, it is considered[by whom?] a typical early-World War II production. Originally titled The Eagle Squadron, it is based on a story by "Melville Crossman", the pen name for 20th Century Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck. It follows an American pilot who joins the Royal Air Force (RAF), during a period when the United States was still neutral."
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Also:
Tue 12 Oct, 'Smithsonian Channel', 2000. 'Breaking the sound barrier'
Described as 'New' in RT, but that may mean only new to this channel. Gist in RT mentions only Yeager, but I'll be interested to see if the Miles M15 is mentioned
PBS America and Smithsonian documentaries are, in my experience,
marginally more likely than some other US channels' ones to mention non-US achievements and contributions.
Repeats: Tue 2300, Wed 1000 and 1600, Thu 0700 2100 and 2400, Fri 1800!