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- If you've saved your country what do you do for an encore? That was the question facing Winston Churchill in 1945. This film provides a distinctive new take on what drove this immense, difficult personality as he continued striving for power and reputation right into his eighties... Presented by leading Churchill expert, Professor David Reynolds of Cambridge University, the film combines in-depth analysis from David in evocative locations in the USA, Europe and Britain, powerful insights in interviews from surviving family, staff and political colleagues and revealing new archive footage which gets us closer to the real man behind the national icon we think we know. The aim is not to debunk Churchill but to show the hero as the rich three-dimensional character he really was - with superhuman energies and very human frailties. To understand the character of the man people have voted the 'Greatest Briton', we need to examine his last twenty years... Churchill refused to wither gracefully into a peaceful old age. Almost written off in 1945, he forced his way back on to the stage as a world statesman. Stinging from electoral defeat and criticism, he quite deliberately went about sealing his own place in history. Despite ill health including several strokes, he struggled back to the Prime Ministership, and reinvented himself as a man of peace. Here was an old man determined to control a reputation that others were already beginning to chip away. A man who, despite his failing health, remained busy - desperately busy - in order to stave off chronic depression. And in the process, as this programme reveals for the first time, he neglected his increasingly dysfunctional family life - with tragic consequences.
- Bob Geldof explores Africa on the 20th anniversary of Live Aid.
- Peaches Geldof investigates the British teenage experience, she meets youngsters from around the country and then argues that their outrageous behavior should be tolerated as an important stage of their development.
- Gives you the lowdown on everything you ever wanted to know about spying, from surveilance to seduction.
- Each week, a special guest is given £2000 to spend on clips of the weirdest TV from around the world.
- Spy School Pilot was presented by David Shayler, British intelligence officer. The series delved into secret spying tactics and and gadgetry used by intelligence forces. The show had many contributors and other guest intelligence experts, plus made-up scenarios on real life situations.
- Kimberley Walsh travels across America to trace the history of the most universal item of clothing in the world - the humble pair of jeans. Along the way she meets designers and fashion experts in order to get to the heart of our passion for jeans and attempt to find herself the perfect pair.