Wireless Operator recreates the physical experience and emotional turmoil of one night in a Lancaster Bomber on a bombing raid over Germany in 1945.Wireless Operator tells the gripping story of a terrifying night-time Lancaster Bomber raid in WW2. This compelling play is told through the eyes and ears of the wireless operator. Confined in the claustrophobic aircraft the young crew struggle to survive. They avoid searchlights and flak; witness fellow airmen blown out of the sky and plunge into zero gravity corkscrew manoeuvres to evade enemy aircraft. As they unleash their deadly cargo onto the city below, the wireless operator agonises about the real cost of their mission. The play reveals the triggers to the lifelong legacy that traumatised those airmen who survived