Typist turned TV producer sold England to the world
Television producer went from making tea for Spike Milligan to creating an international star of Benedict Cumberbatch.
Television producer went from making tea for Spike Milligan to creating an international star of Benedict Cumberbatch.
East Germany was a nation saturated in spies – they were in every office, factory, school and university, and even families spied on themselves.
Various individuals and terror groups have sought to assassinate the Queen, with many of the more serious attempts on her life kept quiet for decades. Some very nearly succeeded.
The Australian National Maritime Museum says the Endeavour has unequivocally been identified in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island. But not everyone is as confident.
Hardy Kruger saw Jesse Owens at the Berlin Games and something unsettled him. Later he understood the full horror of Hitler.
The Sunbury Rock Festival is routinely described as Australia’s Woodstock; unifying the thoughts and frustrations of a politically charged generation. Nothing could be further from the truth.
When Ken and Baillieu Myer took control of the family business they revolutionised it – and their father’s short life showed them that they couldn’t waste a day.
Record companies and producers had no faith, but Meat Loaf stuck with his mate Jim Steinman on Bat Out Of Hell, and he was proved right.
Clyde Bellecourt was no saint, far from it, but he set out to change the fortunes of America’s Indians and scored a few home runs.
Anyone whose life started the year before the First World War saw a lot. But the kid from Collingwood saw more than that. Smoky Dawson’s story is truly extraordinary.
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