Green for Safety
‘THE magic of witches, ogres and giants or beneficent fairies, the fantastic tales of childhood, none of these was more incredible than the story of the little green light that did so much towards winning the Battle of Britain. Radar-mysterious, complex simplicity; uncannily accurate, an unspectacular secret weapon. It was at once an eye and an ear; it was a weapon both of defence and offensive. Unimpassioned, it was neither superhuman nor inhuman, yet far more than a common machine. Radar’s unbelievable omniscience, its remarkable adaptability, almost make one forget that it had no life of its own, that it owed its creation and its existence to a concentration of human endeavour
even more extraordinary. The first scientist who perceived its immediate possibilities and those who brought it to its complete accomplishment; the girls and men who watched the green light in remote and lonely outposts of defence, and the men in the air and on the sea, for whom it was both a guide and a reassur-ance-there was in them all a patience and perseverance and a heroism as secret and unspectacular, but as vital as radar itself. The BBC production which told the stoty of radar skipped the obvious, courageously challenged the intelligence, gave more account to truth than glamour. It was broadcast docymentary as it should be.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 338, 14 December 1945, Page 8
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223Green for Safety New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 338, 14 December 1945, Page 8
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