The Human Game

Sqn Ldr Frank McKenna OBE was a Blackpool bobby who joined the RAF as a flight engineer. After completing 30 operations he transferred to the RAF’s Special Investigations Branch where he hunted down, and personally arrested, 20 of the Nazi “Great Escape Murderers”.

The Crew

Based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew’s sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war’s end. seven ordinary young men living in extraordinary times, risking their lives in freedom’s cause in the dark skies above Hitler’s Reich.