It was a name mentioned on a television programme in the 1970s which struck a familiar chord with a Leeds housewife.

Telling stories about ghosts and monsters in the winter is a tradition that dates back centuries. It also gave rise to this ...

Peter Watkins, who has died the day after his 90th birthday, was a radical and visionary filmmaker who won an Oscar for The War Game, his mock-documentary about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on ...