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In July 1956 Marilyn Monroe arrived in London to make The Sleeping Prince (later released as The Pri..

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

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In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

Rick Stein's childhood in Oxfordshire and Cornwall was idyllic. But ever-present was the unpredictab..

Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely co..