Winston Churchill and the housewife spy on 'Museum Secrets' - videos

Museum Secrets returns to Yesterday today (Friday, June 22).

The first episode of the second series, exploring London's Imperial War Museum, features dramatisations of Winston Churchill and 'housewife spy' Odette Samson, who survived torture at the hands of the Nazis.



Also included in the episode are segments on how a physicist tackled the German artillery and how modern soldiers 'become invisible'.

"The Imperial War Museum tells the story of Britain at war, from World War One to the present, through a collection of ten million items - from guns to planes to medals to cyanide pills - at five locations in England visited by over two million people every year," explained the broadcaster.



Other museums explored during the rest of the series include the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, the Pergamon and Neues Museums in Berlin, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul.

A survey to mark the launch of the new series revealed earlier this week that Simon Cowell was second only to Adolf Hitler as the most-recognised face in history.