The Shepherd

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The pilot thought Kavanaugh must have bought his old Mosquito with JK painted on it, still flew it on occasion, had seen a plane in distress and directed it to his old base. Before Joe left the room he told the pilot that Kavanaugh died on Christmas Eve, 1943, when he went down with his plane in the North Sea. A Visit from St. Nicholas" (also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", 1823) attributed to Clement Clarke Moore Although he’d originally had his heart set on playing the role of Freddie, the actor said he was able to “let it go very easily” in favor of playing the Shepherd, the pilot who guides Freddie to safety. “I preferred myself in the Shepherd,” he said. “Because I felt like I was the old man that had that experience and could bring someone down safely. So it was much more authentic.”

a b c d e Tangcay, Jazz (October 11, 2023). " 'The Shepherd' Trailer: John Travolta Is a Mysterious RAF Rescue Pilot in Alfonso Cuarón-Produced Drama (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved October 24, 2023. The beauty of The Shepherd as a literary tale is the ease with which the author weaves the technology and science of flying a complex and powerful airplane like the De Havilland Vampire, of which only 3,268 were built between 1946 and 1955, with the supernatural aspect of the story. The plot line of The Shepherd is infused with a mixture of horse-sense and magical realism that will surprise readers who expect a straightforward adventure story. Now the fun part. He then bops one on the nose of the reporter, goes off to find a policeman and reports the assault, and points out that it is not up to the assaulted to press charges unlike US law - in UK police must do it, and further if they choose not to he declares his intention of repeating the offence until they do. During the event, the actor, who has a real-life pilot’s license, touched on the topic of his own near-miss plane crash in 1992, a subject he hasn’t discussed in public for almost 30 years. “I actually experienced a total electrical failure, not in a Vampire but in a corporate jet over Washington D.C.,” Travolta said. “So when I read [Forsyth’s] book, it resonated even more because of this experience I had personally had.”What do you do when someone gossips and spreads false accusations and insinuations about you in public? Precious little unless the said person is honest and likely to correct his or her mistake with a public retraction to begin with, and possibly an apology. Most people have experienced some form of this what with gossip and false bad news being quite so spicy most people who hear such things would like to do so and further spread it about with a virtuous air of protecting others.

The flight lieutenant told him Joe, the mess steward, was preparing a room for him. Joe started a fire in the room’s fireplace, brought the pilot food, and stayed to talk. The mess steward said he worked at RAF Minton for twenty years. During the war there had been many young fliers, but the best one had been John Kavanaugh, who had had the room they were now in. The pilot walked over to a framed old photo of a young pilot beside a Mosquito with JK painted on its nose. Joe said that during the war, after the squadron had returned, John Kavanaugh would refuel his Mosquito and go out alone, searching for any crippled bombers to guide them home. But despite that and after some very anxious moments,his rescuer guides him to safety,waves in farewell and disappears.But who was he and where has the aircraft landed,just when it ran out of fuel ? Then there is Murgatroyd from Midland, in Emperor, who is on vacation in Mauritius with his wife and a young colleague, due to the bank he has worked all his life for appreciating his initiative in a whole lot of accounts being opened at the branch - he has suggested the new factory pay the workers in cheques the way they do executives, so the salary shall be safe from theft and pubs. Mauritius would be wasted in spite of the beauty and the infinite ocean he appreciates while his wife does her best to ignore it all and be as unpleasant as in ever rainy and cold Bognor they live in, but for one accidental cancellation of a fishing trip the younger man discovers he can go on for half the usual price, and gets the older one to go on with him - "don't tell your wife" is the most practical suggestion he gives. https://www.firstshowing.net/2023/official-trailer-for-the-shepherd-short-feat-travolta-ben-radcliffe/#:~:text=The%2038%2Dminute%20film%20stars,%27Jie%2C%20and%20John%20Travolta.The Shepherd tells the story of a De Havilland Vampire pilot who is going home on Christmas Eve, 1957. On the way from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, his plane loses all of its electricity. He gets lost in fog over the North Sea and is almost out of gas when he runs into a De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber that seems to have been sent up to "shepherd" him in. On Christmas Eve 2016, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new adaptation by Amber Barnfather for Between the Ears, performed by actor Luke Thompson. [3] Sound design was by David Chilton, with music and mouth/body percussion by the Saint Martin Singers specially recorded for the production at the church of St Giles in the Fields, and Vampire aircraft sound effects specially recorded at the Royal Air Force Museum London. Between the Ears: The Shepherd won a 2017 New York Festivals Radio Gold Award. [4] In April 2017, Between the Ears won the ‘Most Original Podcast’ Gold Award at the inaugural British Podcast Awards. [5]