Audio slideshow: Night witches

Russia's three all-female air regiments flew more than 30,000 missions along the Eastern Front in WWII.
At home they were known as Stalin's Falcons, but terrified German troops called them the Night Witches.

Here - with the help of archive images - Radio 4's Lucy Ash tells their story, and discovers that their extraordinary exploits have inspired others decades later.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8329676.stm

edit - man, I'd like to grab this whole show but still haven't worked out how to trick BBC iPlayer into thinking I am Dallas, Wales or whatever...

Mebbe in a day or two, I can work something up. Lemme know if someone else does (MIKE!).
http://spekxvision.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/using-bbc-iplayer-from-abroad/

So much awesome content there, I may have to break down and buy proxy access - especially since I am thinkin' to cancel rather than fix my cable which has been down about month now. I don't even have home internet. But I have been able to turn my pda phone into a wifi hotspot, making it ever so easy not to call the cable man. And you know...gone a week, we really missed you...gone two, we're figuring it out...gone a month, why did we ever have you?...