Radio review – SDP - “The Big Lift” (1951) **

The Berlin airlift would seem a natural for radio – you can create all those exciting flights without having to worry about filming them – but this adaptation unfortunately concentrates on the antics of two pilots on the ground. They are played by Edmund O’Brien and Paul Douglas, typical of the sort of middle aged war veteran types who populated American screens in the post-war period. (Montgomery Clift was in the film and they should have cast another young actor to play his role, would have made it more interesting.)