Forty Minutes... of documentary

A night of fancy about Britain's most underrated bird from some members of its human fan club: Naomi Lewis, the pigeon's 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 claims never to have been to Trafalgar Square). An ornithologist from Lancashire believes pigeons have regional accents, so there's no doubt that it is in broad scouse that the pigeons of Liverpool airport angrily coo their dislike of the Shirley Bassey records used to frighten them from the runways.
Film cameramen ALEX HANSEN. DAVID FEIG Film recordist FRED CLARK Film editor SHELAGH BRADY
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer ANDY STEVENSON
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