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| 1966 And All That | ...The French Resistance struggles to victory under General de Girl; Hitler gets stuck in a bunker with his Gerbil and John Humphrys interviews WINSTON CHURCHILL ... |
| After Henry | ...... |
| Americana | ...He also explores the continuing love affair between Americans and Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL, and talks to a woman who may have met an angel on September 11th.... |
| Antarctica | ...Klaus Dodds uncovers the intrigue behind WINSTON CHURCHILL's plans to claim Antarctica as British Territory.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...In 1946, WINSTON CHURCHILL spoke of the `special relationship' between Britain and America. Peter Jay, a former ambassador to Washington, looks back over the last 50 years of Anglo-American diplomacy and examines the changing nature of the transatlantic alliance.... |
| Between The Ears | ...A special double bill to conclude the series of newly commissioned experiments in creative radio. `Grosse Fuge'. A tapestry woven from public speeches given by speakers including WINSTON CHURCHILL, JFK, Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Jesse Jackson and Brian Keenan.... |
| Chaplin, Celebrity And Modernism | ...Thirty years after the death of Charles Chaplin, Mark Kermode investigates the great comedian's celebrity role and influence on world culture from the modernists and Dadaists to the Russian avant-garde and imitators in Bombay. Privileged access to Chaplin's private archive reveals remarkable letters from Truman Capote, WINSTON CHURCHILL and James Agee.... |
| Churchill Confidential | ...Penny Leicester's dramatisation of the notebooks of former cabinet secretary Norman Brook, containing verbatim accounts of the cabinet's discussions during the period of WINSTON CHURCHILL's premiership between October 1951 and April 1955.... |
| Churchill The European | ...David Sells explores WINSTON CHURCHILL's passionate advocacy of a united Europe in the late 40s and tries to determine what role he thought Britain should have in such a Europe.... |
| Coming In From The Cold | ...2006 marks the 60th anniversary of WINSTON CHURCHILL's famous speech which heralded the beginning of the Cold War. For the next half century, the world would be dominated by the threat of nuclear catastrophe, tales of espionage and the very hot wars of Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Artists inevitably responded to these conflicts and the very real sense of fear, paranoia and uncertainty which plagued the second half of the 20th century. It was also a period that directly and indirectly produced some of the greatest popular culture of the age.... |
| Countdown To D-day | ...Through the week, military historian Peter Caddick-Adams introduces extracts from journals and memoirs of the key military players who were responsible for developing and executing what WINSTON CHURCHILL described as 'the most difficult and complicated operation ever to take place' Field Marshall Romell, appointed by Hitler to oversee the defence of Northern FRANCE, reports back to German high command on his assessment of the invasion threat , and writes home to his wife and son with the news of the latest military situation and the antics of his new dogs. Rommel is read by Paul Humpoletz.... |
| Document | ...Mike uncovers WINSTON CHURCHILL's paper trail of secret deals, bribes and broken promises in wartime Spain.... |
| Eagle Has Landed, The | ...It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: "Operation Eagle", Heinrich Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap WINSTON CHURCHILL on British soil in November 1943. But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight.... |
| Five Master Photographers | ...How he came to be a photographer, after coming to North America from Turkey; learning how to use light. 6'20"" in - story of taking his famous photograph of WINSTON CHURCHILL in 1941. His photographs of Gorbachev. Does not differentiate between photographing ordinary and famous people. Photography is great deal of pleasure. How he defines successful photograph; sitter has to give as well. 16'28"" in - portrait photography. Story about photographing Ernest Hemingway. Prefers photographing human face to anything else.... |
| Fringes Of Power, The | ...In 1939 the young diplomat John Colville was seconded from the Foreign Office to Number 10 Downing Street, and went on to serve as WINSTON CHURCHILL's Private Secretary for much of the Second World War. The Downing Street Diaries he kept, against all regulations, offer an extraordinary insider's view of the public and private face of Churchill throughout those momentous years.... |
| Last Bark Of The Bulldog, The | ...Jonathan Smith's play dramatises the political crisis of June 1953 when WINSTON CHURCHILL suffered a stroke at 10 Downing Street during his last period in office as Prime Minister. Lord Moran....Christian Rodska Anthony Eden....Michael Cochrane Jock Colville....Robert Portal Nurse....Emma Callander.... |
| Life With The Firm, A | ...The Queen's accession was seen as the dawn of a new Elizabethan age - with then prime minister WINSTON CHURCHILL making comparisons with the 'grandeur and... |
| Lost, Stolen Or Shredded | ...The Destroyed Portrait Of WINSTON CHURCHILL... |
| Maggot In Mr Churchill's Kipper, The | ...A BBC poll found WINSTON CHURCHILL to be the greatest ever Britain. Dundonian Alan Cochrane explores the difficult relationship between the war-time PM and the city.... |
| Maggot In Mr Churchill's Kipper | ...WINSTON CHURCHILL is the greatest ever Briton according to a BBC poll, but not in Dundee. Dundonian Alan Cochrane explores the difficult relationship between Britain's greatest war-time Prime Minister and the city by the silvery Tay.... |
| My Uncle Freddie | ...Young Lecky comes face to face with WINSTON CHURCHILL, who has come to the North East to meet Saint Exupery. The great man walks off with Lecky's pork pie. With Shaun Prendergast and Alex Ferguson. Director Melanie Harris.... |
| Nine Days In May | ...WINSTON CHURCHILL....Alex Jennings... |
| On These Days | ...Geoffrey Wheeler looks back at the news of 50 years ago this week. Milwall Football Club is closed due to fans' behaviour, railway companies prepare for nationalisation, and WINSTON CHURCHILL predicts that at least a quarter of all Britons will have to leave the country.... |
| On This Day | ...The news of exactly 50 years ago today, with Geoffrey Wheeler. The leader of the opposition, WINSTON CHURCHILL, launches a stinging attack on the Government's economic policy.... |
| Playing For Time - Three Days In May 1940 | ...WINSTON CHURCHILL....Robert Hardy... |
| Point Of Departure | ...with two unexpected guests - Aristotle Onassis and Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL ... |
| Power Eating | ...Anne Perkins looks at the crucial dinner party at which Keynes failed to stop WINSTON CHURCHILL from deciding to return to the gold standard in 1925.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley's guest today is one of Britain's best-loved actors. Timothy West has played a vast range of roles on stage and screen, from Lear and Falstaff to Stalin, Thomas Beecham, Edward VII and WINSTON CHURCHILL. This year he has appeared on TV in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and The Alan Clark Diaries, among others. His musical tastes range widely, from Gretry and Mozart to Poulenc and Sonny Rollins.... |
| Rock And Poll Years, The | ...Five programmes mixing pop and politics to capture the atmosphere and chart the course of general election campaigns. Humphrey Lyttelton recalls 1955, when WINSTON CHURCHILL finally stood down as PM. His successor, Anthony Eden, immediately called an election. Up against him was Clement Attlee, heading a hopelessly divided Labour Party. Meanwhile, rock 'n' roll had its first real chart success.... |
| Savrola | ...By: WINSTON CHURCHILL... |
| Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette | ...This is not be a celebration of smoking (or indeed a condemnation of it), rather it is a look at the special part cigarettes have played in the popular culture of much of the 20century… and a chance to explore where the likes of Dave Allen, Albert Camus, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, WINSTON CHURCHILL, Bette Davis, Pete Doherty, Serge Gainsbourg, Clark Gable, Lew Grade, the Joker in Batman, Maigret, Princess Margaret, The Rat Pack, Jean-Paul Sartre, Cruella de Vil (the list goes on) would be without their little sticks of burning leaves.... |
| Speaking For Themselves | ...'Pug' and 'Clemmy Cat' (AKA WINSTON CHURCHILL and Clementine Hosier) commence their epistolary romance.... |
| Subterranean Stories | ...Dylan Winter travels back 60 years, and down 50 feet, to discover WINSTON CHURCHILL's secret wartime bunker, hidden in the North London suburb of Dollis Hill. This is where, had the war gone badly wrong, Churchill might have made his last stand against the invading Panzer brigades. After decades of neglect, this deep level bunker has recently been opened up by members of the group Subterranea Britannica, and in the company of two Sub Brit enthusiasts, Dylan goes in search of evidence of Churchill's occupation.... |
| Thinking Allowed | ...WINSTON CHURCHILL was a charismatic leader, but what exactly makes a person charismatic? Laurie Taylor investigates.... |
| This Sceptred Isle - Empire | ...As Britain approached August 1914, young WINSTON CHURCHILL made an impassioned speech in Belfast, and the future of the Empire looked uncertain. Watching it all was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.... |
| This Sceptred Isle - The 20th Century | ...The year opens with the death of WINSTON CHURCHILL and Edward Heath becomes the first state educated leader of the opposition.... |
| This Sceptred Isle - Web | ...Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, with the words of Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL read by Paul Eddington.... |
| This Sceptred Isle | ...Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, with the words of Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL read by Paul Eddington and Peter Jeffrey. AdditionAl Readings by Ross Livingstone. 62: `The Civil War Begins'.... |
| To Win The Peace | ...At the end of the war in Europe in 1945, WINSTON CHURCHILL, the architect of Hitler's downfall, called a General Election, hoping to reinforce politically his pre-eminent position in the eyes of the British people. In the event, Labour won with a landslide majority.... |
| Westminster Hour, The | ...1/2. WINSTON CHURCHILL ... |
| Why Did We Do That? | ...Shunned now for its association with Nazi horrors, eugenics was once all the rage in influential British circles. Supporters were as varied as WINSTON CHURCHILL and Marie Stopes. Chris Bowlby reveals how lurid fears of working class expansion and mental 'weakness' prompted this fascination with the 'science' of breeding.... |
| Wrong Hero?, The | ...Mark Burgess's drama re-imagines the circumstances surrounding the death of film star Leslie Howard, whose plane was shot down by German fighters in 1943. Howard and his business manager Alfred Chenhalls - who bore a striking resemblance to WINSTON CHURCHILL - were on their way back to England from Lisbon after a speaking tour. Could their plane have been targeted in a case of mistaken identity?... |
| Year To Remember, A | ...Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL died, the Beatles got their MBEs, Mary Whitehouse started her clean-up-TV TV' campaign, and the BBC's decision to move `The Magic Roundabout' to a pre-5.00pm slot was met by adult opposition.... |
| Yes Mr Churchill | ...Marian Walker SPICER recalls her experiences as one of WINSTON CHURCHILL's... |