2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (604+ words) "It's really humbling just to be there and think of all those huge decisions being made, but then you've got the reality of the people participating on the front lines losing their lives." The fate of the world hinged on…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (491+ words) Pressure review – Andrew Scott shines in a nerdy yet ordinary wartime drama AOL.com “Did you know that weathermen are traditionally boring?” asks a kindly Irish secretary in Pressure, about the real-life wartime meteorologist James Stagg. It’s a problem that…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (457+ words) THE family who own an award-winning Musselburgh pub have revealed their close connection with the meteorologist whose pivotal role in the D-Day landings has just arrived on the big screen. In early June 1944, Eisenhower had to choose the exact date…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (183+ words) Captain James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of D-Day, spoke to Richard Dimbleby in 1964. The Allied invasion was moved from the 5th to the 6th of June, due to Stagg's advice. The…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (625+ words) Lewis stars as Bernard Montgomery in the new film about how meteorologist James Stagg played a crucial role in the success of the D-Day landings. Despite having starred in all sorts of films and TV shows in the past 25 years…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (453+ words) Historical documents written by Group Captain James Stagg – the chief meteorologist tasked with advising on weather conditions for Operation Neptune in 1944 – have been discovered at a Royal Navy training unit based at HMNB Devonport. They explain how the accurate weather…...

4+ day, 2+ min ago   (58+ words) Ahead of his Oscar-tipped role in ‘Elsinore’, the Irish actor predicts the weather and enrages Brendan Fraser’s Eisenhower Dir: Anthony Maras. Starring: Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Damian Lewis, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina. Cert 12A, 110 minutes. ‘Pressure’ is in cinemas...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (316+ words) An opinion piece written by Dr Sam Edwards for the Conversation. For the makers of Pressure, this is no doubt reassuring. Directed by Anthony Maras and cowritten with David Haig, the film revisits the well-known story of D-day but with…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (441+ words) For the makers of Pressure, this is no doubt reassuring. Directed by Anthony Maras and cowritten with David Haig, the film revisits the well-known story of D-day but with a novel focus: the meteorologists who helped the generals make the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (675+ words) Pressure (Film Review) — Weather Forecasting Becomes Riveting D-Day Drama FILMHOUNDS Magazine “How can the weather be boring? It feeds us. The weather can destroy us. It controls our daily life.” Andrew Scott delivers these lines impeccably as meteorological expert James…...