Banknotes of the pound sterling £10 note on 14 September 2017; these will be followed by the £20 note in 2020, and the £50 at a date after that. In April 2013, the Bank of England announced that its next planned new note issue, intended to be the £5 note in 2016, would feature former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The selection of Churchill to replace Elizabeth Fry raised some debate about the representation of women on British banknotes, with critics raising concerns that Bank of England notes would portray exclusively male figures, other than Elizabeth II who appears on every sterling banknote and coin.
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an eight-part 1981 drama serial based on Winston Churchill's years in during the 1920s and 1930s. It was made by Southern Television on a budget of £3¼ million and originally broadcast on ITV on Sunday nights at 10 pm. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, with historian Martin Gilbert as co-writer. Churchill was played by Robert Hardy, who earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor and went on to play him in several other productions. The series focuses on the decade from 1929 to 1939 during which