Historian Hilary Roberts and Editor Mark Holborn discuss Cecil Beaton and his theatre of war in relation to his wider career and to the tradition of war photography.  Roberts is head curator of the Imperial War Museums’ photograph archive and recently worked with Holborn, editor at Jonathan Cape responsible for illustrated books, on Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War.  This authoritative talk looks at some of the most iconic of the 7000 images Beaton took during his war time travels to the Western desert, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, India and Burma.