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Introduced by Robert Robinson.

Tonight's programme includes:

Footmarks in Time: Thomas Hardy
A personal view by C. Day Lewis.
"Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in"

This film was made in Hardy's own country of Wessex: C. Day Lewis, poet and lifelong admirer of Hardy, talks of the importance to him of Hardy's sense of time and his compassion for human beings.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Presenter (Footmarks in Time):
C. Day Lewis
Film Editor:
Allan Tyrer
Associate Producer:
Nancy Thomas
Associate Producer:
Christopher Burstall
Producer:
David Jones
Source: Radio Times

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