I Love This Dirty Town

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I Love This Dirty Town

First transmitted in 1969, this personal plea from Margaret Drabble is a lament for the death of the city as planners create endless suburbia instead of cities fit to live in.

I Love This Dirty Town (49 mins)

Tonight
The writer Dame Rebecca West in conversation with Ludovic Kennedy. (1976)
20 mins
Francis Bacon: Fragments Of A Portrait
A film study of Francis Bacon's paintings, which have been called sick and corrupt. (1966)
44 mins
Where We Live Now
Colin Ward sets out to discover the truth about Britain's New Towns. (1979)
58 mins
Augustus and Gwen: The Fire and the Fountain
The story of Augustus John and his sister Gwen. (1975)
50 mins
Contrasts
John Betjeman takes a journey from Marble Arch to Edgware. (1968)
27 mins
Three Swings on a Pendulum
Investigating the so-called 'swinging London' of the 1960s. (1967)
47 mins
Whose Doctor Who
A classic documentary from 1977, introduced by Melvyn Bragg
51 mins
The Bronte Business
Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontes. (1977)
25 mins
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Jim White takes a road trip into the heart of the poor white American South. (2004)
83 mins
When Mary Beard Met...
Mary Beard interviews Booker-nominated British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.
29 mins
Beardsley and his Work
Aubrey Beardsley's drawings still retain their power to amuse and to shock. (1982)
50 mins
Intimations
John le Carre talks about his writing and the main influences on his work. (1966)
30 mins

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I Love This Dirty Town