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Visions of UK today from emerging directors, inspired by the classic Listen to Britain.

Exciting visions of UK today from emerging directors, inspired by the 1942 classic Listen to Britain and commissioned by BBC Four and BFI to mark its 75th anniversary.

Tim McInnerny

Umber Ghauri

Nadine Davis

Tia Simon-Campbell

Basi Akpabio

Temi Wilkey

Ijeoma Uzoukwu

Travis Alabanza

Savannah James-Bayly

Amrou Al-Kadhi

Thomas Fitzsimons

Wingspan Productions

Fiona Brands

Fox Cub Films

Listen to Britain 2017: CLASH

CLASH

24/09/2017

BBC Four - Listen to Britain 2017, CLASH

The UK's obsession with period dramas and their failure to reflect modern diversity.

Film challenging the UK's obsession with period dramas and their failure to reflect modern diversity, asking what it means for those excluded from this vision of Britain.

CLASH challenges the national obsession with period dramas and calls out their failure to reflect modern diversity, asking what it means for those excluded from this vision of the UK. Humphrey Jennings' Listen to Britain propagated a myth of national unity. CLASH, through the perspectives of underrepresented queer people of colour, critiques the myths we still tell ourselves on screen. Through candid interviews and staged period drama sequences, the film explores the issues surrounding nostalgic, 'heritage' film and television, and how they erase the diverse history of Britain, particularly its colonial past.

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