Film & TV

On and Off Script

The challenges of writing history for television are formidable. But if historians don’t get involved, they will cede ground to those less qualified, warns Suzannah Lipscomb.

The BBC Book of War

What role was the BBC to play if the cold war became hot? For the first time, the corporation has given detailed access to its plans for a Wartime Broadcasting Service following a nuclear attack. Paul Reynolds reveals its secrets.

A Muddy Vision of the Great War

Following the media rush to commemorate the First World War, Stephen Badsey is disappointed that television has so far failed to embrace the latest historical research on the conflict.

Night Will Fall

After 70 years, a visual record of the liberation of Belsen has been restored.

Their Back Pages

Second-hand books don’t just tell the stories of their authors but of their former owners, too.