"We've got computers and stuff these days [to make] images [but] he was just the master ... with the creativity and longevity ...

Professor Sir David Cannadine explores political fame and image by looking at how an object ... a revered elder statesman behind his wrought-iron gates at his country estate, Astley Hall.

He’s also, it transpires, a huge heavy metal fan, especially iron gates. What’s more, he actually makes them – and for the first time the gates, welded out of vintage iron and other metal ...

Only a few minutes away -- by boat or by car -- are the Iron Gates, cataracts between almost vertical cliffs, where the great Danube River is forced into a narrow channel between the Carpathian ...