Cathedrals In The Sky

Spanning over 70 years, Cathedrals In The Sky is a coming-of-age psychology of love, loss and parenthood, told from a series of five very different perspectives.

The turbulent saga of Ash, a troublesome, twelve-year-old, trans-racially adopted British-Asian boy, sent to live on a Kent farm by a mother too ill to cope, during the long, hot summer of 1976. There, he discovers a buried WWII Spitfire engine and determines to rebuild it with his Grandfather. But where’s the rest of the aeroplane?

1941: Trinidadian fighter pilot Rudy finds himself reflecting on life, somewhere over the coast of France, limping back to Blighty in a wounded Spit.

2014: St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. As Ash surveyed his own son Tom's broken body, he wondered how much he was willing to share, now Tom was old enough to ask awkward questions...

Andrew Rajan started out as a Mechanical Engineer. Having globetrotted, he studied at the Guildhall, appearing in the BAFTA award-winning dramas Loved Up and Holding On, as well as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the stage World Premier of Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy. He produced Short Losing Heart, then made rom-com Offending Angels, premiering at Raindance, 2002. Thereafter an MA at the NFTS, controversial Short Opportunist, two documentaries and feature film, Greys Inbetween. Andrew has served the BAFTA jury, the Sony Radio Awards and the RTA Television Awards. He recently completed a play- Mental, two novels and created a film course for the British Council, Nepal.