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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.
‘It’s Channel 4 s job to cheer people up’
During Covid, the network has a very simple mission, says chief content officer Ian Katz
23 February 2021 • 6:00am
Viral hits: clockwise from top left, The Great British Bake Off, It s A Sin, First Dates, and Grayson s Art Club
When I speak to Ian Katz, Channel 4’s chief content officer, in early February, he has been awake since 3am watching the first day of the channel’s Test cricket coverage. He’s still buzzing: “I woke up this morning to sunny skies in Chennai and Joe Root doing quite well… it was a thrill, the first really good bit of news this lockdown.”