The first of seven programmes celebrating the work and the ways of the Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman
Presented by Jonathan Stedall
Hating lorries and loving Max Miller-a date with Parkinson-memories of boarding school-looking at old film-brutes and redheads - and a conversation with John Osborne about music-hall and about the New English Bible, and with producer Edward Mir zoeff about the making of the film Metro-land. With extracts from Metro-land (1973), Parkinson (1977), Marble Arch to Edgware (1968), Monitor (1959) and the film of John Betjeman 's verse autobiography Summoned by Bells (1976).
Film editor ERIC BROWN Producer
JONATHAN STEDALL
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