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TV REVIEW:Into the StormBBC2, Monday, Beyond the Berlin WallRTÉ1, Tuesday, The ClinicRTÉ1, Sunday, The Schoolboy Who Sailed Round the WorldChannel 4, Thursday

We shall get to George Lee in a moment. But back in the day before economists were the people most likely to be on television (David McWilliams is the new host of The Panel on Thursday nights – economists make Jedward look shy), there was a little thing called the second World War. And during this war Winston Churchill, a most peculiar person who would now be judged far too fat for television, was the leader of Great Britain.