Jessica Mitford -
The Honourable Rebel
Few contemporary writers' lives are as full of contrasts as JESSICA MITFORD 'S, a peer's daughter, who rebelled against her aristocratic parents, eloped to Spain with Churchill's nephew and joined the Communist Party which she left after the Hungarian Uprising.
She later wrote the wickedly funny best-sellers Hons and Rebels and The American Way of Death. In the film she revisits the scenes of her childhood and gives new insights into her parents, Lord and Lady Redesdale, who, with sisters Unity and Diana, were notorious for their support of Hitler. Of her other sisters Nancy was the novelist and Debo the present Duchess of Devonshire.
She also recounts her frequent tussles with the FBI and gives an inside account of the joys and sorrows of being a Civil Rights activist within the Communist Party. The film marks the publication next month of the second volume of her autobiography A Fine Old Conflict,
Film editor CLARE douglas Executive producer BILL MORTON
Producer MICHAEL BARNES