let's start with the lovely felicity jones and eddie redmayne. how are you with heights? i am not too bad, actually. this is basically a mixture of fact and fiction and spectacle. it is basically about an attempt by a meteorologist and a balloon pilot to go the highest above the earth that anyone has ever gone and two characters are jaimes glaisher, played by eddie redmayne, who is a real character, and amelia wren played by sheedy pilot and sherman. she understands the need to put on a show. they are attempting to break the record for altitude and the higher they go, the more they encounter weather, storms, cloud and everything else that the film—makers chose to throw at them. here is a clip. i'm not sure your instruments are much use to us now. we need to batten down. please put on your wet weather clothing. there are no prizes for obstinacy. james, if you won't listen to me... ..listen to that. but not one of my readings suggested a storm. well, that's what it is. and we're inside the cumula, which is precisely where we shouldn't be. don't worry, she's not made of cond