There’s a story behind every picture, but often it can take you to a place very different from where you might have imagined. This...

Many years ago I recorded a series of interviews with the film producer Anthony Havelock-Allan. A notably perceptive commentator on the British film industry, it was Tony who “discovered” Vivien Leigh. Or at least, he was the first film producer to put her in a leading role. Perhaps best known today for producing the early David Lean films, Tony had started out as a casting director at the film studio British & Dominions. He went on in 1935 to oversee the production of “quot

Extract from Churchill and the Movie Mogul , which can be seen on BBC iPlayer until the end of October. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epi...