A series of eight programmes
5: To Bradford, the Dales and Leeds Novelist and playwright Beryl Bainbridge makes a journey around England and Englishness. She travels to many of the places visited by J. B. Priestley 50 years earlier for his book English Journey.
She is shown around Priestley's old school, where today 97 per cent of the children are Asians, and watches some of the city's Muslims demonstrating to keep boys and girls in separate schools. She also meets Bradford's Chief Executive and learns that his wife signed a legal contract promising to do the housework. In the Dales nothing seems to have changed. Narration
J. B. PRIESTLEY , BERYL BAINBRIDGE
Film editor ROBIN JACKMAN Photography JOHN WARWICK
Executive producer JAMES DEWAR
Producer BERNARD HALL. BBC West
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