A series of eight programmes 7: To Teesside, York and Hull
Novelist and playwright Beryl Bainbridge makes a journey around England and Englishness. She travels to many of the places visited by J. B. Priestley 50 years earlier for his book English Journey.
She goes to Billingham where she talks to a young man on his way to a prison sentence for violence, and to a couple of top executives from a company with a mine that they might fill with radioactive waste. York is much as Priestley found it: 'if you want the past, here it is, weighing tons'. In Hull a trawler-fleet owner explains how we lost the Icelandic fishing wars. Narration
J. B. PRIESTLEY , BERYL BAINBRIDGE
Film editor ROBIN JACKMAN Photography JOHN WARWICK
Executive producer JAMES DEWAR
Producer BERNARD HALL. BBC West
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