Jack, that was a memorable bottle of Dutch gin, I think you will have a hard time improving on it. For American Jennie just click on the underlined link in the article for the Amazon location. Celia and John Lee’s Winston and Jackis out of print and very expensive, but see bookfinder.com for the array of offers. All best to Chris Harmon.

Robert Hardy may be unique in featuring as three different people in Churchill films, though not so many years apart as Ronald Pickup. He was well matched in age each time. In “Young Winston” (1972) Hardy at 47 played the sadistic headmaster Rev. Herbert Sneyd-Kinnersley. (He was 34 when young WSC fell into his clutches in 1882.) In “The Gathering Storm” (1974) aged 49, Robert was aged close to Ribbentrop, who was 45 when he encountered Churchill (1938). “The Wilderness Years” (1981) begins around 1932, when Churchill was 58; Robert was then 56. Not in the same genre, but I immediately recognized Robert Shaw (Lord Randolph in “Young Winston”) as James Bond’s would-be assassin Donald Grant in “From Russia with Love” (1963), and later as shark-hunter Quint in “Jaws” (1975).