Starring: David Bailey, Manolo Blahnik, Hamish Bowles, Susanna Brown, Leslie Caron, Peter Eyre. Narrated by Rupert Everett.

Oscar-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright Young Things to the front lines of war to the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue and then onto the Queen’s official photographer – Beaton embodied the cultural and political changes of the twentieth century.