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Crossing the Border: Images of England in the 1930s
24 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 1054
This program examines how England and Englishness were portrayed in the 1930s in poetry, advertisements, photographs and film. The 1930s, whilst a time of doom, gloom and unemployment, brought new opportunities, including the use of the countryside for relaxation and pleasure, rather than work. Auden, rejecting the nostalgic view of the better days of Georgian poetry, was interested in recent human industrial activity and relationships. The program's final eight minutes comprise extracts from the film Nightmail, showing the attempt to unite rural south with industrial north, incorporating working and middle classes.
Credits -
Director:
Betty Talks
Presenter:
Angus Calder
Open University/BBC
