DELOREAN: BACK FROM THE FUTURE

Car-crash tale of ambition and disaster

The real story behind tycoon John Z. DeLorean’s gull-winged, stainless-steel sports car is more fantastical than any movie. A compelling psychological profile, using some unseen footage, tells how the Detroit businessman with a fashion model wife Cristina (below, with DeLorean) threw millions at his dream of building a supercar in Northern Ireland during a recession – and came a cropper. BBC iPlayer, available now