Rent Churchill's Secret Son...? (2014)
1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
Even the Churchill family thought Brendan Bracken was Winston Churchill's illegitimate son... Could he have been? Was he? Here is his unbelievable story...War time information minister, newspaper tycoon, father of modern Financial Journalism, the model for Nig Brother in Orwell's '1984' and Rex Mottram in Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited' - Churchill's right-hand man who put Churchill into Downing Street in 1940, the unmarried first spin-doctor, liar, fantasist and larger than life character who ordered all his papers burned on his death in 1958. To this day Brendan Bracken remains an enigma...this is his story. Presented by distant relative and filmmaker Adrian Bracken, this 90 minute video tells the story of Brendan Bracken with archive footage, images, dramatic reconstructions, interviews and was filmed in places associated with this remarkable man. Bonus video includes over two hours of complete interviews with Lord William Rees Mogg, former editor of The Times; historians Lord Asa Briggs and David Kynaston; Bracken's biographer Charles Edward Lysaght; Brian Capler, editor of 'The Banker'; Michael Thornley, master at Sedburgh School 1940-75; John Ridding, CEO of the FT Group and Brendan Bracken, nephew. - Actors:
- Lorna Bumford, Paul Cowley, Ewan Macleod, Simon Rayner, Chris Sheridan, Nigel Townsend, Rob Trutt
- Directors:
- Darren Richardson
- Studio:
- Marbella Productions
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest
- Countries:
- Spain