David Dimbleby’s Invisible Hands charts the ascent of free-market ideology in Britain

David Dimbleby’s Invisible Hands charts the ascent of free-market ideology in Britain

On 15 August 1940, at the height of the Second World War, Antony and Basil Fisher went to battle. The two brothers were fighter pilots in the RAF’s 111 Hurricane Squadron and set out together on an airborne mission. For one of the brothers it would prove to be fatal. In the midst of chaos, Basil’s plane was shot down and he fell to his death after his parachute burst into flames. Antony watched on, helpless. This terrible scene forms the opening…