Andrew Marr
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A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder...
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In 2015, the fiftieth anniversary year of Churchill's death, Andrew Marr discovers the untold story of Winston Churchill's lifelong love for painting. He meets the Prime Minister's descendants and explores the connections between his private passion for painting and his public career as politician and statesman.
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A veteran tells his story of suffering from traumatic brain injury-and finally finding relief.
Former Green Beret Andrew Marr served multiple tours of duty in Afghanistan-incurring dozens of traumatic brain injuries. It just about destroyed him and his family, and almost cost him his life.
After the military medical establishment repeatedly failed him, Marr called upon the initiative and determination that had served him as a warrior-and eventually...