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As historian, biographer and documentary film-maker, Cate Haste, who has died aged 75 of lung cancer, explored remarkable lives and how people relate to each other, both historically and personally.
For Jeremy Isaacs’s 24-part series Cold War (1998) for BBC Two/CNN, covering the period from 1945 to 1991, she made five episodes. They told of how fear was mobilised both in the west and in eastern Europe, life behind the iron curtain, how the Berlin Wall was built, and in 1989 how it came down. Filming took her to the US, where President George HW Bush was a contributor, and to Prague, with Václav Havel, to recount how the Prague spring thaw in the Soviet bloc was crushed by invading tanks in 1968.
Carrie Symonds is entitled to her views. But it s clear she doesn t understand rural Britain
When Miss Symonds allowed herself to be a proponent for the badger, she touched a very raw nerve far beyond the confines of the M25
26 April 2021 • 12:47pm
Faux indignation over the makeover of the Downing Street flat is deliciously confected and shows the determination of the post Brexit media establishment to get Boris. Personally, as a taxpayer, I am delighted that a substantial tenant’s improvement to public property is to be made at Boris’s expense, or perhaps more likely, given the burden of alimony and school fees on the Johnson finances, through the generosity of anonymous benefactors– rather than at my expense. I look forward to the nation’s interiors experts casting an acerbically professional eye on Carrie Symonds’ choice of soft fabrics when the photographs hit Homes and Gardens.