March 1944, just weeks before D Day. Helen Duncan, Britain's most famous Spiritualist Medium, stands in the dock of the Old Bailey accused under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. A drama documentary for C4 Secret History.
Operation Tiger, the disastrous large-scale rehearsal on Slapton Sands in April 1944 for the D-Day invasion is analyzed. Attacks by German E-Boats and friendly fire incidents led to the deaths of nearly 750 American GI's in the deadly training exercise.
Alfred Kinsey's book 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male' (1948) was credited with kickstarting the sexual revolution. What many people don't know about Kinsey is that Chapter 5 of his book, which dealt with child sexuality, was compiled from the diaries of a paedophile.