• Phil Craig - From Skippy To James Hewitt
    Aug 24 2024

    An accomplished commissioning editor, head of department, executive producer and writer! Phil Craig's TV & digital shows have set rating records and won awards on three continents.

    From the Hillsborough tragedy to his best-selling book Diana: Story Of A Princess, we cover a wide range of topics that reflect his amazing career.

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    41 mins
  • Behind The Crown - Arthur Edwards
    Jul 5 2024

    What an honour to have the opportunity to chat with Arthur Edwards, MBE, about his amazing career photographing The Royal Family. After nearly 50 years working as a Royal photographer for The Sun newspaper, he has been there at all their major events and captured them with his camera. In this interview, we discuss many of the history-making photographs in his beautiful book Behind The Crown, My Life Photographing The Royal Family.

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    44 mins
  • FBI Files & Frolics - Andrew Lownie
    Jul 5 2024

    The Mountbattens received the full "Lownie" treatment in his 2019 publication! "The Mountbattens, Their Lives and Loves" Based on over 100 interviews, research from dozens of archives and new information released under Freedom of Information requests, Andrew answers all the questions I had deep diving into this, at times, dark tale. We discuss all the rumours swirling about Lord Louis Mountbatten's private life and look behind the man, the myth, and the legend as depicted in the wartime film In Which We Serve. A searingly honest and brave biography.

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    44 mins
  • Monitored - Andrew Lownie
    Jul 5 2024

    What a delight to have Andrew Lownie visit The Vintage Read Show! In this episode, he tells a chilling tale of censorship, suppression & lies. The best-selling author of Stalin's Englishmen, The Mountbattens & Traitor King, has also been a bookseller, publisher, and journalist, writing for the Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, and Guardian. Since 1988, he has run his own literary agency, specialising in history and biography.

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    41 mins