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Nation on Film

Series 1

Episode 6: The Ramsden Collection

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

David Jason narrates the story of a newly-discovered amateur archive that sheds new light on life in post-war Britain.

For 20 years, husband and wife Betty and Cyril Ramsden recorded the world around them, capturing middle-class life in the north of England. Their rich celluloid legacy challenges the cliched view of 50s Britain as a decade of dreariness. Show less

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