Backchat prog no 9-2021 the Newcomers

An interview with Anthony Smith about The Newcomers, a documentary series made in 1964, and directed by John Boorman, to launch BBC2 

From the archives Colin Thomas looks back to his working life at the BBC working with John Boorman.

Martin Smith was a film director on the World at War series. Here he describes what it was like to work on such a programme and the impact on his life.

Philomena Winn reads 2 poems,’From you I have been absent in the Spring’, a sonnet by William Shakespeare and A Backwards Spring by Thomas Hardy.

Robin Haward reads an extract from War and peace by Leo Tolstoy .

Producer Anthea Page