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For most of their lives, the sensitive heir and the Queen's brash consort were locked in an uneasy, complicated relationship. But while their personalities were dissimilar, the two began to see eye to eye a lot more as they grew older.
IT’S one of those stories that you just couldn’t make up and, even if you did, no one would really believe you. It might read a bit like an idea for a TV drama, but the difference, on this occasion at least, is it is all absolutely true. For me the events start at the altar of the ancient parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Burnham-on-Crouch. Picture the scene. It is Saturday, June 22, 1946, and the vicar, the Rev Williams, is conducting one of a number of post-war wedding ceremonies. Before him is a debonair, 36-year-old, uniformed RAF wing commander with a chest full of medal...
Syd Smith was a POW in WW2 and worked as a police officer in London in the 1950s Smith is also making a Radio 4 stand-up special, and has recorded a podcast pilot with Miriam Margolyes Arthur Smith is turning his late father's life story into a Radio 4 special and book, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. Both the half-hour stand-up show and the book, which has the working title That in turn was inspired by his father's own memoirs, which he wrote down for his family in 2004, shortly before he died, about his World War Two exploits and experiences as a police officer in the 1950s, p...
What’s on TV this weekend: David Attenborough returns to the BBC with A Perfect Planet The i 1/1/2021 Gerard Gilbert Friday 9pm, BBC One A new year and a new real-crime drama. This immaculately designed eight-part thriller follows the hunt for Charles Sobhraj, a conman and serial killer who preyed on young backpackers on the South East Asian “hippy trail” during the mid-1970s. We first meet Sobhraj (played with suitably chilling menace by Tahar Rahim) posing as a gem salesman on the fringes of Bangkok’s red-light district, with Jenna Coleman speaking in a French-Cana...
As a child, David Walliams’s favourite movie was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 musical fantasy about a flying car, its eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts and the brilliantly scary Child Catcher. But the thing that really captured David’s imagination was when Chitty took to the air. ‘Those scenes were absolutely magical,’ recalls BGT judge David, ‘I really thought that car was flying.’ In reality, Chitty never got off the ground. Weighing a whopping two tons, the specially built vehicle was used for road scenes while a replica was employed for aerial shots at Pinewood Studio...