In the year 1900 Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, the British Labour Party was founded, Mafeking was relieved and Queen Victoria reigned happy-and-gloriously. The 20th Century was beginning. What parent did not have special hopes for the child born that year?
The series singles out six personalities in the arts, each with a different and personal view of the century, but with two things in common: the year of their birth and their exceptional creative energy. Tonight's programme features Helen Bradley , who has recreated a vision of her childhood in paintings which recall the child's happy and total preoccupation with the present moment. Her pictures are full of colour, abound with characters, remembered incidents and fantasies and present an extraordinary panorama of her Edwardian England.
Film cameraman PETER HAMILTON Film editor RAOUL SOBEL Director JANE COLES
Series producer ANNE JAMES