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Q Marks the Spot 134 (December 2019)
Sacred Treasure One man mission – a fascinating story about reviving Welsh chapels – and fascinating it gets such a high profile on the BBC
1st December 2019
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Last Hope Island: Assessing the legacy Britain’s WW2 haven status
This is history writing at its compelling best. Lynne Olson has beavered away to find an original angle on an oft-told story and does it
7th July 2017
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Kim Philby & Jim Angleton and the genesis of A Wilderness of Mirrors
So here is the second of 3 promotional films for Wilderness of Mirrors (the first can be found here on the Kickstarter campaign – only a
12th April 2015
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A Bodyguard of Lies: Secrets, sleights of hand and deceptions in wartime
Churchill famously declared during the Second World War that the “Truth is so precious that she must often be attended by a bodyguard of lies”
16th January 2012
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Q’s Espionage Festival: 3. Soviet Spies, John Stott and fleeting encounters
This is a mildly unserious combination of Q’s Espionage festival and Friday Fun. But London W1 is a spy-historian’s paradise – there are so many
21st October 2011
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The intrusion of musical grace and Steven Galloway’s “The Cellist of Sarajevo”
I don’t cry in movies. Sometimes I’d quite like to. But that’s a different story. I just don’t. Usually. But one of the greatest films of
19th October 2011
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Q’s Espionage Festival: 2. A review of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
I was in fear and trembling before watching this movie. Not because of any potential hide-behind-the-sofa moments – but because I so wanted the film
14th October 2011
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Q’s Espionage Festival: 1. Gordon Corera’s The Art of Betrayal
BBC Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera‘s new book, The Art of Betrayal – Life and Death in the British Secret Service covers ground that will be familiar to
11th October 2011
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