Cigars: Out of the Humidor

According to Pierre Salinger, John F Kennedy's former press secretary, before the president signed the embargo banning the importation of cigars into America from Cuba in 1962 he ordered 1,200 of them from Havana. Tonight's programme follows the story of the cigar - from the tobacco fields west of the Cuban capital of Havana into the factories where poetry and daily newspapers are read aloud to workers; to Hollywood cigar bars and the gentlemen's haunts of St James's, London. With contributions from actors James Belushi, George Wendt and Peter Weller, plus Lord Grade and politician Kenneth Clarke.