A Forty Minutes documentary
A flight of fancy about Britain's most underrated bird from some members of its human fan club: Naomi Lewis , the pigeons' Florence Nightingale who tends the stricken birds in parks and streets of London; Mr and Mrs Clapham who cohabit with 32 pigeons in their Tooting semi; Jed Jackson , the blind fancier whose 'Genista' won the pigeon Grand National in 1981; Geoffrey Stevens of Sheffield who trains his white fantails to take wing to the music of Messager in the ballet Les deux pigeons.
There is a man who eats them, another who dyes them and a journalist who panics whenever he sees them (he has never been to Trafalgar Square). Executive producer Roger Mills Producer Andy Stevenson