{"id":8460,"date":"2020-07-01T09:46:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8460"},"modified":"2020-11-15T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T09:32:59","slug":"sir-douglas-bader-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/sir-douglas-bader-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Douglas Bader: 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1981 former RAF pilot Sir Douglas Bader visited Imperial College Bookshop to promote and sign copies of his new autobiography. He took part in the Battle of Britain, was imprisoned at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oflag_IV-C\">Colditz Castle<\/a> and his life was chronicled in the film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reach_for_the_Sky\">Reach for the Sky<\/a>.\u00a0 Surrounded by copies of his books, Lawerence Windley managed to get a few words with him.<\/p>\n<p>Within a year of this video, in September 1982, he had died.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sir Douglas Bader - December 1981\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6UQgm39HNrQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw July 2020<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1981 former RAF pilot Sir Douglas Bader visited Imperial College Bookshop to promote and sign copies of his new autobiography. STOIC were there to report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,80],"tags":[212,89],"class_list":["post-8460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-people","tag-stoic","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8460\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}