With wildlife filmmaking still at a nascent stage in the '70s, 'Roar' became a case study on how not to handle wild animals on a film set. Hollywood films have gripped audiences by bringing the wild ...

In an extract from his new book, Andy Beckett gets an extraordinary insight into the 1981 Toxteth riots – from the Liverpool-based economist advising Margaret Thatcher’s government, and a rioter ...