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Two days, two film sets, one birthday surprise.

Mar 20

The concluding instalment of the two-part story of a seemingly routine Second World War air battle and its stranger-than-fiction aftermath.

Mar 7

The two-part story of a seemingly routine Second World War air battle and its stranger-than-fiction aftermath.

Mar 6

How the murder of two gangsters in a Democratic Party clubhouse spawned a coast-to-coast American television event that influenced The Godfather movies.

Feb 20

The electrical engineer, the chimpanzee, and the wacky race to broadcast the first transatlantic television spectacular.

Feb 6

An encounter with one of the best-known models used by the painter Lucian Freud, plus the hitherto untold story of how he ended up as the defendant in a…

Jan 23

How a fanatical Nazi a-changed with the times and became Bob Dylan’s first British promoter.

Jan 9

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