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Left and Write: Recalling 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: 1055
Linked with film 1054, Crossing the Border, which shows how writers, poets and film-makers viewed England and Englishness, this video looks outwards from England to a wider European perspective. Three writers - Julian Symons, Sir Stephen Spender and Naomi Mitchison - recall how it felt to be a writer on the left and the issues that mattered to them. Four topics are discussed: sex, including homosexuality and censorship; politics - the 1930s were a time of intense political commitment; Spain - the Spanish Civil War was a focal point for many 1930s writers; and writing, an assessment of the political commitment of themselves and their contemporaries from the viewpoint of the late 1980s.
Credits -
Director:
Betty Talks
Narrator:
Benjamin Whitrow
Participants:
Julian Symons
Sir Stephen Spender
Naomi Mitchison
Open University/BBC
