8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988. Always remember as Mr. Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factor and Monty Bartlett in The Hill - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill_(film).

North Lincolnshire farmer David Cundall believes a large number of brand new Mark XIV Spitfires were buried in wooden crates on the orders of Lord Mountbatten during August and December 1945 as "surplus to requirements" at the end of World War II. He's off to find them.

One hundred years ago, in the autumn of 1912, an African-American musician by the name of WC Handy published a song that would take the US by storm - Memphis Blues. It launched the blues as a mass entertainment genre that would transform popular music worldwide.