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Timewatch Season 16 · Episode 3

Secret Memories

11th March 1997 50 mins Season 16 Episode 3

A wireless operator who survived torture and a Nazi concentration camp, a 20-year-old sabotage expert, and an MI6 agent who filmed his own undercover operations are just three of the British secret agents whose stories of bravery behind enemy lines in the Second World War are told in this historical documentary.

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Season 16 · Episode 4

The Boer War: The First Media War

The Boer War of 1899-1902 saw correspondents and cameramen play a major part in war propaganda for the first time. Diaries, memoirs, photographs and films form part of an examination of the media's role in a conflict that saw young journalists Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling and writer Edgar Wallace make their names.
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