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CULTURE CORNER - JOHN GRAY AND ERIC PETERSON

World War I marked the beginning of a new type of warfare. While men were being killed in the mud below, a few began fighting from aircraft overhead including several Canadians who were among the war's flying aces. Marc Montgomery talks with John Gray and Eric Peterson about their award-winning, historical play, Billy Bishop Goes To War, about Bishop, one of war's best-known pilots.

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