In 1960 I was nine. This was shown one night a week and it was a special occassion as it was the one schoolday night I was allowed to stay up to the ungodly hour of 11 p.m. My Dad figured it was a required part of my education, and I was fine with that. Dad had been a Major in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WWI, horse-drawn artillery. He volunteered to serve again in WWII but was told he was too old. He was a huge admirer of Churchill and had a photo of the great man pinned up beside his desk in his law office. I found the series enthralling, not only for the action clips, but also for the narrative history and the power of the language: excerts from Churchill's speeches and that wonderful voice of Richard Burton speaking the Queen's English.
