Guy Martin’s Battle Of Britain

Channel 4, today, 9pm

The average age of the RAF’S Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain was just 20, yet they managed to inflict a major defeat on the Luftwaffe, which on paper outgunned and outnumbered them.

In this two-part documentary, Guy Martin discovers whether he would have made the grade as a fighter pilot as he goes through the same training, the same planes and at the same locations. It begins with flying lessons in a Tiger Moth bi-plane, and if he masters those, he’ll face the toughest test of all – flying a Hawker Hurricane in a dogfight against a Messerschmitt 109.