The first of three programmes
Forty Years of Northern Townscape
The years since the end of the Second World War have seen more changes wrought to the towns and cities of the north than were thought possible - even during the Blitz.
But there has also been a massive turn-round of public opinion: away from the great Corbusier-inspired dreams of the ideal modern city towards more modest, intimate schemes. The future has been seen - and it doesn't work.
Between the end of the Second World War and the dawn of the swinging 60s - 15 years during which the foundations of a brave new world were laid. Or so it was thought....
Written and presented by Patrick Nuttgens
Film editor BOB GEOGHEGAN Producer JOHN GRAHAM
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