Foyle's War turned the Sussex seaside town of Hastings into a landscape of murder, espionage and wartime suspicion, but the real history was every bit as unsettling. From threatened invasion and bombing raids to civilians sheltering beneath the cliffs, discover why Anthony Horowitz chose this particular corner of Britain for his celebrated detective.

In 1981, Britain's record industry warned that home taping was killing music, as if a blank cassette were a weapon of mass destruction. The panic overlooked the mixtapes, independent musicians and underground networks already turning that same piece of plastic into a cultural revolution.

Heartworn Highways caught Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Earle and their fellow songwriters at the moment outlaw country still looked more like a loose community than a marketable genre. Fifty years later, its kitchens, trailers, prisons and Christmas gatherings feel less like music history than somebody accidentally left a camera running while history happened.