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- Wide-ranging arts program.
- The life of Winston Churchill, one of history's greatest leaders and figures.
- Martin Gilbert, who has spent 25 years researching and writing about the life of Churchill, presents the first complete television biography of Britain's wartime leader.
- Presenter Ludovic Kennedy and three guests discuss the week's television, while there are also interviews with those responsible for making it. The series was later revived with Jeremy Paxman as the host.
- A unique celebration of the Queen's ninety years as she reaches her landmark birthday in April. Film-maker John Bridcut has been granted special access to the complete collection of Her Majesty's personal ciné films, shot by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen herself, as well as by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Much of it has never been seen publicly before. Various members of the Royal Family are filmed watching this private footage and contributing their own personal insights and their memories of the woman they know both as a member of their own close family and as queen. Among those taking part are the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Princess Royal, the Duke of Kent and his sister Princess Alexandra, who has never before given an interview.
- Whether as warriors, spies, resistance fighters, combat nurses, reporters, or propagandists, women have played a part in warfare throughout world history. Why then has society clung to the idea that women should not fight on the frontline?
- In a programme broadcast 70 years to the day after the outbreak of WWII, people who were alive at the time speak of their memories.
- An abiding image of the home front is of a woman shielding a child in an idyllic cottage doorway, but what roles did women really play at home, and how did those roles help redefine the kind of work that was deemed acceptable for women?
- Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner talk about running the new National Theatre from its opening in 1976 to the fulfilment of Olivier's original dream.