For Jack Rowell, the son of a coal-shipping supervisor from West Hartlepool, a place at the University of Oxford in the 1950s was something of a pipe dream. A...

His wonderfully talented and youthful team was dubbed “the Busby Babes”. And manager Sir Matt Busby’s boldest and youngest selection was Jeff Whitefoot....

If Robert Towne tuned suspense as taut as a piano string on his Oscar-winning screenplay for Chinatown , the real-life tension between him and the film’s...

One Sunday in 1960 Lieutenant Hugh Pye marched to church in Tidworth Garrison with his regiment, the 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’s), for a “coming...

In winning the 5,000 metres gold medal in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the American Bob Schul ran his last 300 metres, on a saturated cinder track, in the...

The first time Elizabeth Tuckniss walked down the aisle, in March 1949, her groom was James Morris, a dashing 23-year-old Oxford undergraduate who had served...

When the BBC decided to produce an in-house training guide for would-be directors and producers of situation comedy, it was no surprise that Harold Snoad was...

The planets were aligning and Ed Stone was the man hired by Nasa to make the most of a one-in-176-year opportunity. An intern at the American space agency...

Joss Naylor was taking part in a 24-hour challenge running up and down 42 Lake District peaks when at about midnight he heard the bleating of a lamb in...

It was at the annual Kinus Hashluchim, a gathering of all the emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, that Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky could celebrate...