What the record says
Lieutenant Commander Hamish Ian Mackintosh, (26 July 1940 – disappeared 7 July 1979) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer, a writer of thriller novels, and a screenwriter for British television.
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Podcast episodes
- The Strange Disappearance of Screenwriter Ian MackintoshThe Writers Hangout · 2022
- The Disappearance of British Spy Ian MackintoshMurder and Mystery in the Last Frontier · 2024
- The Disappearance of British Spy Ian MackintoshMysterious · 2024
- Rewind - The Strange Disappearance of Screenwriter Ian MackintoshThe Writers Hangout · 2023
- The Strange Disappearance of Screenwriter Ian MackintoshThe Writers Hangout · 2025
In the Internet Archive
- XThe SandbaggersX (1978-oldbritishtv)Video · 1978
- Prelude, Fugue and Riffs - Leonard Bernstein - Richard Stoltzman clarinetteAudio
- Gazprom to move to London as colonialist IASB seizes Russian economyVideo · 2014
- Wilde Alliance (1978 TV Mystery series)Video · 1978
- Episode 3-4: The Sandbaggers "Decision by Committee"Audio · 2017
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