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The 30s: Documenting Ourselves: 1: Facing the Camera

on BBC Radio 3

In the 1930s Britain invented a new kind of cinema, the documentary. In the first of four programmes, Christopher Cook considers the way in which John Grierson 's documentary film-makers showed ordinary Britons another image of themselves.

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Presenter:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
Fiona McLean

BBC Radio 3

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