In about 2010, I was called by a researcher about appearing in an episode of this series. After we’d spoken for a while, she slightly awkwardly said that her producer wanted to know my age. Some historians, she confided, could be quite old. I told her I was 46. I didn’t hear back. Afterwards... 1/2
Melvyn Bragg reveals archive footage telling the history of modern Britain. At Osterley Park, Melvyn visits the site of the first Home Guard training school.