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Churchill's People is a series of 26 historical dramas produced by the BBC, based on Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. They were first broadcast on BBC1 in 1974 and 1975. It was produced to mark the centenary of Churchill's birth.
#TitleOriginal Air Date1Pritan30 Dec 19742The Lost Island6 Jan 19753The Coming of the Cross13 Jan 19754King Alfred20 Jan 1975- Historical Drama
- Views on race. In April last year, Labour candidate Benjamin Whittingham tweeted that Churchill was "a racist and white supremacist". Sir Nicholas Soames, Churchill's grandson, was outraged.
- Poison gas. Churchill has been criticised for advocating the use of chemical weapons - primarily against Kurds and Afghans. "I cannot understand this squeamishness about the use of gas," he wrote in a memo during his role as minister for war and air in 1919.
- Bengal famine. In 1943, India, then still a British possession, experienced a disastrous famine in the north-eastern region of Bengal - sparked by the Japanese occupation of Burma the year before.
- Statements about Gandhi. Churchill had strong views on the man now widely respected for his work in advocating self-determination for India. "It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir… striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace," Churchill said of his anti-colonialist adversary in 1931.
Mar 31, 2020 · 20 Images of Churchill You May Not Have Seen Before. Cold War. World War 2. Mar 31, 2020 Jack Beckett, Guest Author. British statesman Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) helping to lay tiles on the roof of a new cottage at his Chartwell estate in Kent, 25th February 1939.
Churchill's People: With Alfred Lynch, Bernard Hepton, Geoffrey Matthews, Mark Donaldson. A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies.
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- 1974-12-30
- Drama, History, War
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Sitter in 228 portraits. Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, his family's estate. After serving in the army, he entered parliament in 1900 and was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. Held responsible for the failure of the Dardanelles expedition, he resigned in 1915.
Still, on and on, down the centuries Churchill’s People battled, the 800 leading actors, 1,000 extras and 20 directors bravely ignoring the audience’s non-Churchillian V-sign and dismissing claims that their efforts resembled a Women’s Institute pageant in a slightly tatty town hall.
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Churchill's People: With Alfred Lynch, Bernard Hepton, Geoffrey Matthews, Mark Donaldson. A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies.
