In 1844 Henry Lehman arrived in the US from Germany &, with his brother Emanuel, established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman Brothers. In 2008 Dick Fuld, the last CEO of Lehman Brothers, filed for corporate bankruptcy. ...

Charles Mc Glinchey lived on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal. Never married, he outlived his brothers & sisters, none of whom left an heir. In the 1940s & '50s, Mc Glinchey visited schoolmaster & friend, Patrick Kavanagh, to talk about his life. Kavanagh wrote it down. Thirty years later Brian Friel edited the material to form a book. ...

Laura Lake, editor of glossy magazine Society, is always on the hunt for scandalous scoops to fill her pages.

Now shes

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All 19 episodes from Series 15 & 16 of Roy Clarke's long-running BBC comedy set in the Yorkshire Dales. Series 15 episodes are: ' How to Clear Your Pipes', ' Where There's Smoke, There's Barbecue', ' The Black Widow', ' Have You Got a Light Mate?', ' Concert ...

All 13 episodes from the first two series of Roy Clarke's popular comedy set in the Yorkshire Dales. In ' Short Back & Palais Glide' the friends go in search of Compo's key. ' Inventor of the Forty Foot Ferret' sees Blamire try to get Compo into church. ' ...

All 17 episodes from series 13 & 14 of Roy Clarke's long-running comedy set in the Yorkshire Dales. Series 13 episodes comprise: ' Quick, Quick, Slow', ' Give Us a Lift', ' Was That Nora Batty Singing?', ' Cash Flow Problems', ' Passing the Earring', ' Pole S ...

All 16 episodes from series 3 & 4 of Roy Clarke's popular comedy set in the Yorkshire Dales. In ' The Man from Oswestry', Clegg (Peter Sallis) & Compo (Bill Owen) meet war hero Foggy Dewhurst (Brian Wilde) for the first time & a new friendship is for ...

All 15 episodes from series 7 & 8 of Roy Clarke's popular comedy set in the Yorkshire Dales. Episodes comprise: ' The Frozen Turkey Man', ' The White Man's Grave', ' The Waist Land', ' Cheering Up Ludovic', ' The Three Astaires', ' The Arts of Concealment', ...

All 20 episodes from series 9 & 10 of Roy Clarke's long-running comedy set in the Yorkshire Dales. Series 9 episodes comprise: ' Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings?', ' The Heavily Reinforced Bottom', ' Dried Dates & Codfanglers', ' The R ...

In 1940, against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, 66 Quadron's commanding officer, Squadron Leader Athol Forbes, asked ten of his pilots to record their experiences of flying one of the greatest aerial battles ever waged. The Ten Fighter Boys, published in 1942, comprised the first-hand accounts of pilot officers & sergeant pilots from all walks of life among them was Sergeant Jimmy Corbin, who wrote the third chapter. He was 23
- old by pilot standards
- &, like the rest of the squadron, based at Biggin Hill, Kent. Now, sixty years later, Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Corbin, Spitfire pilot, tells his extraordinary wartime story. He describes how an ordinary working-class boy from Maidstone was propelled into the thick of action in the skies over Kent during the summer & autumn of 1940. As the sole survivor of the original ' Ten Fighter Boys', Jimmy's story is all the more poignant now that the men who fought the Battle of Britain pass from living memory.

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