' The series which explores living memory is ten years old this spring. To mark the occasion we present eight programmes from its earlier years.
1: Two Victorian Girls
This film was made in 1969. When it was first shown the critics wrote: The romantic novelist Berta Ruck, and Frances E. Jones, one of the first shorthand typists, were splendidly contrasted performers.
(THE TIMES)
Two old ladies, both over 90, got lost in their reminiscences last night and I was lost in admiration.
(DAILY SKETCH)
Berta Ruck and Frances Jones both lived to be a hundred. Tonight we salute their memories.
Producer STEPHEN PEET
Book, Yesterday's Witness, a selection of first-hand accounts by eye-witnesses of events from the not-so-distant past, £4.25, from bookshops.