Summers and Mangold have done for the Tsar what Bernstein and Woodward did for
Watergate.' (LUDOVIC KENNEDY) According to the history books, on 17 July 1918 Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and five children were massacred.
Two television journalists, Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold have shown this particular piece of history is ' bunk '. It has taken them five years but tomorrow their findings are published in The File on the Tsar. Tonight they tell their extraordinary real-life detective story, which led to their discovery that the Tsar's family escaped the massacre, and which uncovered the conspiratorial role played by many nations, including Britain.
ANTHONY SUMMERS and TOM MANGOLD tell their story from a script by CLARE SELERIE .
Producer GWYNETH HENDSRSON
(Reused repeat: Friday 11. Sam)