CHURCHILL'S SECRET ARMY - INTERVIEW MATERIAL [Allocated Title]
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- Title: CHURCHILL'S SECRET ARMY - INTERVIEW MATERIAL [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: TV 171
- Other titles: SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [Alternative Title]
- Summary: Interview material related to the work of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) Second World War, recorded by Carlton Television for possible inclusion in their production transmitted under the title of "Churchill's Secret Army".
- Description: ANALYSIS TV 171/01 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/02 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/03 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Leo Marks, a cryptographer, who became head of the SOE's codes and ciphers during the war (Part 1). TV 171/04 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Leo Marks (Part 2). TV 171/05 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Leo Marks (Part 3). TV 171/06 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Leo Marks (Part 4). TV 171/07 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor Douglas Everett, a British scientist who worked for the SOE during the war. Co-author of 'SOE - The Scientific Secrets' (Part 1). TV 171/08 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor Douglas Everett (Part 2). TV 171/09 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Sir Douglas Dodds Parker, a British officer who served with the SOE in Algeria during the war (Part 1). TV 171/10 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Sir Douglas Dodds Parker (Part 2). TV 171/11 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor Douglas Everett (Part 3). Interview with Leo Marks (Part 5). TV 171/12 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Jean Overton Fuller, author of 'The German Penetration of SOE and Dericourt the Chequered Spy', the biography of French secret agent, Henri Dericourt (Part 1). TV 171/13 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Jean Overton Fuller (Part 2). TV 171/14 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Jean Overton Fuller (Part 3). TV 171/15 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Jean Overton Fuller (Part 4). TV 171/16 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Peter Lake, a British army officer and explosives expert who served with the SOE in France (Part 1). TV 171/17 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Peter Lake (Part 2). TV 171/18 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Vera Atkins, a Romanian born British civilian, who served with the SOE during the war as assistant to Maurice Buckmaster, head of F section, acting as 'mother' to F section agents in France. Atkin's responsibilities included creating cover stories for agents about to be sent into occupied territories (Part 1). TV 171/19 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Vera Atkins (Part 2). TV 171/20 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Vera Atkins (Part 3). Interview with Hugh Verity, a Lysander pilot, who flew 29 missions into enemy occupied France with 161 Squadron, based at RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire. TV 171/21 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Robert Marshall, a BBC researcher who traced and interviewed Horst Kopkow, a former Nazi counterintelligence officer, in the 1980s (Part 1). (Kopkow was responsible for the deaths of over one hundred SOE agents during the war, but was famously given a new identity by the British after the war and worked for the British government as a spy for a number of years.) TV 171/22 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Robert Marshall (Part 2). TV 171/23 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Dick Rubinstein, who led SOE Jedburgh missions in France and Burma during the war (Part 1). TV 171/24 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Dick Rubinstein (Part 2). Interview with Sir Brooks Richards, a British officer who served with the naval section of the SOE (Part 1). Brooks operated clandestine landings between Cornwall and France, commanded No1 Special Force in Algeria and Tunisia, and headed the SOE section operating in Corsica and France. TV 171/25 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Sir Brooks Richards (Part 2). TV 171/26 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Sir Brooks Richards (Part 3). TV 171/27 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/28 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Lisa Daniely, the British civilian niece of SOE officer, Nicholas Bodington. TV 171/29 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor David Stafford, SOE historian (Part 1). TV 171/30 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor David Stafford (Part 2). TV 171/31 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor M R D Foot, who served with the SOE in France, and has written several books about the work of the SOE (Part 1). TV 171/32 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor M R D Foot (Part 2). TV 171/33 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor M R D Foot (Part 3). TV 171/34 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Professor M R D Foot (Part 4). TV 171/35 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Margaret Jackson, who worked for the SOE as a secretary during the war (Part 1). TV 171/36 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Margaret Jackson (Part 2). TV 171/37 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Margaret Jackson (Part 3). TV 171/38 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Adher Pierre Watt, a French civilian who served with F Section, SOE in Britain and France between 1940 and 1944. Interview with Ralph Beauclerk, a British officer who served with the SOE in France during the war. TV 171/39 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Robert 'Bob' Maloubier, a French civilian who served with F Section, SOE, in France between 1940 and 1945 (Part ). Maloubier was a sabotage expert operating in the Rouen and Le Havre areas. TV 171/40 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Robert Maloubier (Part 2). TV 171/41 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/42 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/43 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Jacques Bureau, who served with the SOE in France as a radio technician. TV 171/44 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/45 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/46 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Francis Cammaerts, a British conscientious objector, who joined the SOE after the death of his brother on flying duties (Part 1). Cammaerts served as head of the Jockey circuit, F Section, in France 1943-1944. TV 171/47 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Francis Cammaerts (Part 2). TV 171/48 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Jacques Poirier, a French civilian who escaped to Britain after France fell in 1940, and returned to France with the SOE in 1943 (Part 1). TV 171/49 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Jacques Poirier (Part 2). TV 171/50 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Jacques Poirier (Part 3). TV 171/51 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Phillipe Ragueneau, a French officer who served with the SOE in France. TV 171/52 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Georgette Robert (nee Lachard), who fought with the Resistance movement in France during the war (Part 1). TV 171/53 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Georgette Robert (Part 2). TV 171/54 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Georgette Robert (Part 3). TV 171/55 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/56 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/57 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Sir Hardy Amies, who served with the SOE in Belgium during the war. TV 171/58 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Anne Bonsor, a British civilian who served with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) and the SOE in France between 1941 and 1945. TV 171/59 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Margaret Powley, who served with the FANY and the SOE in France during the war. TV 171/60 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Sir Tommy McPherson, who served with the SOE in France (Part 1). McPherson led one of the three man Jedburgh teams parachuted into France with the intention of causing as much disruption as possible. TV 171/61 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Sir Tommy McPherson (Part 2). TV 171/62 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Sebastian Faulks, author of the best-selling novel Charlotte Gray, the fictional tale of a Scotswoman recruited by the SOE and sent into France. TV 171/63 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Max Hastings, military historian. TV 171/64 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/65 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/66 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/67 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Joachim Ronneberg, who led Operation Gunnerside in 1943, in which the Norwegian Hydro Electric plant at Vemork near Rjukan was destroyed (Part 1). TV 171/68 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Joachim Renneberg (Part 2). TV 171/69 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Gervase Cowell, who worked for M16 in Moscow during the 1960s, and acted as the Foreign Office's advisor on the wartime work of the SOE in the 1980s (Part 1). TV 171/70 (Digi-Beta) Interview with Gervase Cowell (Part 2). TV 171/71 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting. TV 171/72 (Digi-Beta) Location shooting.
- Alternative Title: SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE [Alternative Title]
- Colour: Colour
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- Object_Number: TV 171
- Sound: Sound
- Access Conditions: NON-IWM
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- Production Date: 2000
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Channel 4 (Production sponsor) Carlton Television (Production company) McAllan, Alison (Production individual)
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- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound
- Technical Details: Format: Digi-Beta Number of items/reels/tapes: 72 Footage: 40; Running time: 48 hours (ca)
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