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Our Band

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A documentary film in which Henry Livings - author, play-wright, and vice-president of the Dobcross Brass Band - observes the Whit Friday celebrations in the Pennine community of Saddleworth. The climax of the day is the traditional brass band competition, held simultaneously in Dobcross and the seven other villages of the Saddleworth area. As it happened, this Whit Friday was wet. It poured. It bucketed down all day. But undeterred, the bandsmen - dogged and dripping - blew on regardless...
Henry Livings Choice: page 5

Contributors

Presenter:
Henry Livings
Film Editor:
Andrew Page
Producer:
Roger Mills
Director:
Tim King
Source: Radio Times

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