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Even if you're not into aviation history, this is an intriguing story of barrier-breaking and international one-upmanship. Over tea and biscuits, engineer Ted Talbot shows us his diagrams from the early 60s, but the project didn't get off the ground until a financial "entente concordiale" with France. Old newsreel footage bills the aircraft as a glimpse into the future. Ironically, its paper-dart design still looks futuristic now.

First of a two-part documentary in which aircraft designers, pilots and passengers tell the story of how the Anglo-French Concorde saw off competition from the Americans and Soviets to become the world's first supersonic passenger airliner. Michael Heseltine describes how the Americans made it impossible for Concorde to be sold to any other airlines other than the national carriers of Britain and France, and even went so far as to try and ban it from the route it had been designed for - London to New York.