Archives for July 29, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock is interviewed by Huw Wheldon on Monitor. This episode was originally telecast by the BBC on July 5, 1964:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy; the outlook of the leader on whose decisions fateful events depend is usually far more sanguine than the brutal facts admit.”

Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, 1911-1914