The BBC has released the first photo of Eddie Izzard in Castles In The Sky, BBC Two’s new factual drama about the previously untold remarkable story of the fight to invent RADAR by Scotsman Robert Watson Watt and a team of British scientists.

The one-off film will star Izzard as Watson Watt with Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad) as his wife Margaret, alongside Alex Jennings (The Queen) as Tizard, Tim McInnerny (The Devil’s Whore) as Churchill, David Hayman (Trial And Retribution) as Lindemann and Julian Rhind-Tutt (The Hour) as Albert Percival Rowe.

Izzard commented: “I feel very privileged to be playing the role of Robert Watson-Watt. Hopefully our production will allow him, along with Arnold ‘Skip’ Wilkins and their team, to finally take their places in the pantheon of British greats of World War II, as the inventors of RADAR.”

Directed by Gillies McKinnon (Hideous Kinky) from a script by Ian Kershaw (Shameless), Castles In The Sky will air on BBC Two in 2014.

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