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I’m done with po-faced politicians

I’m done with po-faced politicians

Why can’t we go back to 1983?

By 10pm on the night of 9th June 1983 BBC Television centre was humming. In Studio Two, amid a beige version of the set from Alien, David Dimbleby and Robin Day were about to start the election results show, though everybody already knew Thatcher was going to walk it....

The King’s touch

The King’s touch

Princess Diana’s powers are underappreciated.

The King’s touch “Of course you’ve read Marc Bloch on this?” I was tempted to say “Yes” but it was never a good idea to bullshit Christopher Hitchens, who’d read everything. We were well into a languid, discursive Dupont Circle lunch. The kind that left me muddled and...

Phil Craig

Phil Craig

Phil Craig is a best selling author and multiple-award-winning film-maker, producer and TV network executive.A former RAF cadet pilot, Phil studied history at Cambridge University, was a BBC graduate trainee and built his career working for iconic British current affairs series World in Action and Panorama, where he became senior producer.  Later he became joint head of programmes at the prestigious Brook Lapping production company, where he made a range of contemporary and historical films for the BBC, Channel Four, PBS in America, Discovery, Nat Geo and numerous other international clients. He went on to run departments at the Discovery Channel and at ABC Television in Australia, where he supervised the entire factual output of the national broadcaster including its high profile ANZAC centenary project in 2015.
Phil Craig

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Phil Craig

Phil Craig

The bestselling historian discusses his history, influences and his latest book.

What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I was a 60s child and brought up on Airfix models, the Air Training Corps and Victor comics, so the Second World War obsessed me, especially the Battle of Britain. When I was about 40 the BBC asked me to...