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The Stasi: Secrets, Lies and British Spies
With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operations and asks why its other secrets are yet to be revealed.
Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric
A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a cowboy vicar and the artist/filmmaker Bruce Lacey showing his set-up where he pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.
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Dave Allen Self
Edward H. Blackmore Self
Ivor Cutler Self
Snowy Farr Self
Bruce Lacey Self
Alexander Stuart Wortley Self
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