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Amy Johnson - Twenty Days: 21 May 1930

After seventeen days in the air, Amy is feeling extreme tiredness and having repeated trouble with her plane Jason. And she’s beginning to think that she has no chance of coming out of her epic journey as a heroine.
Twenty Days is an evidence-based, first-person retelling of Amy’s story from the Amy Johnson Arts Trust. It covers the highs, the lows and the unexpected incidents that the 26-year-old Hull woman experienced on her route to making history.
Twenty Days is based on Amy’s own records of her flight, on contemporary press reports and the telegrams she sent home to her parents back in Hull throughout her gruelling 20-day passage in May 1930 from Croydon Airport to Darwin in Australia in her Gipsy Moth aeroplane called β€œJason.”
Twenty Days has been written by Hull writer and playwright Dave Windass and Amy’s part is performed by Rachel Harris.

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4 minutes