But let’s not get lost in my obsession – what’s important here is that powerful torches are now delightfully cheap thanks to ...

A new play by Nick Newman and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop – modern torch-bearers for free speech – is based on the public trials of William Hone; you can hear Trial by Laughter at 2.30pm on ...

Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the ...