Horizon

Clear, thorough and gripping: BBC2’s Horizon – The Battle to Beat Malaria

27 July 2024 9:00 am

If you transcribed the narrator’s script in almost any episode of Horizon, you’d notice something striking: an awful lot of…

A good man at the 1970s BBC

4 June 2016 9:00 am

When I saw this book, a biography of Huw Wheldon, who was managing director of BBC Television between 1968 and…

Lankily elegant and exquisitely dressed: Peter Watson (right) with Oliver Messel

The Mad Boy, Peter Watson, Cecil Beaton and the limo — by Sofka Zinovieff

23 May 2015 9:00 am

It would not have surprised their friends in the 1930s when Peter Watson had a fling with my grandfather, Robert…