Regeneration Game – Vice – Part One
March 31st, 2015
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In part one of Regeneration Game, host Daisy-May Hudson visits the Carpenters Estate in Newham, the borough with the biggest homelessness crisis in London. With Westfield shopping centre, the Olympic site and excellent transport links surrounding the area, the land on which people’s homes stand has rocketed in value. The council has said the Carpenters Estate is no longer “viable” and has been slowly trying to relocate residents over the last eight years – but a group of local mums are leading the fight back.
Where We Live Now – all five films
March 26th, 2014
I had hoped to get all five films on YouTube and/or persuade the BBC to rebroadcast them. This has been partially successful in that the BBC has put New Town Home Town online.
However they have chosen not to put the other four online and so I have had to resort to other methods. It has proved impossible to put the remainder all on YouTube because Architecture for Everyman would not load properly (despite two attempts) with sound, and so this list is a combination of YouTube links, downloads and one, yes just one, via the BBC.
The Stuart Hall Project – again
February 24th, 2014
Prologue
I deleted the first review. Thought I must be wrong. So many people on Twitter and in the reviews said how great it was that there are still Guardian readers clicking on the link in my comment and coming up dry to http://singleaspect.org.uk/?p=13725
I can’t put it back so I’m going to write it again.
Where We Live Now : City of Towers – a set back
February 17th, 2014
The story so far . . .
I’ve waited 35 years to see this again, in full, at original quality. If you’ve got a good copy please get in touch, you know where I am. Thank you.
BBC Post war architecture collection contains some wonderful stuff including one of the five Where We Live Now films.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01s0hpy/post-war-architecture
Housing films on YouTube and Vimeo
January 17th, 2014
This page is out of date now so I’ve deleted the links. You can find working links in other articles including the Film page. Use the Search box to look for particular films.
Heritage! – The Battle for Britain’s past
January 11th, 2014
A BBC documentary series in three parts last shown in March 2013 tells the story of how the National Trust and English Heritage came about featuring well known figures such as Simon Thurley (EH), Simon Jenkins (NT), Gavin Stamp, Dan Cruikshank, Candida Lycett Green, and other well known figures shown in documentary footage such as Sir John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner.
It is a fascinating series of which part three is to me the most interesting covering the post-war period and ending with the story of the Euston Arch.
How to make a documentary – Fifties War Films:Days of Glory
January 2nd, 2013
Simon Heffer is a man in love with his subject. This personal documentary sets the standard by which future documentaries ought be made and stands head and shoulders above many lesser films of recent years.
It is a personal journey through the war films of his youth which dramatised the events of the Second World War and made stars of the actors involved reminding us of the heroism of those they portrayed.
Three Streets in the Country – Michael Frayn
November 3rd, 2012
This film formed part two of the five day series Where We Live Now, in the week beginning Monday 19th February 1979. I was lucky enough to see it at Kings College London on Friday 12th February 2010.
BBC Archive – London
October 7th, 2012
This weekend I discovered some old films about London on the BBC website, and have been enjoying a look back to the 1950s and 60s. In case you enjoy this sort of thing too I’m posting this brief article to alert you to the fact that you can be reminded of childhood memories or find out what it looked like in our parents time and how London has changed since.
City of Towers – Christopher Booker – BBC 1979
August 27th, 2011
City of Towers is a two hour documentary made by Christopher Booker for the BBC, first broadcast in 1979 and a master class in the history of Modernism that covers its birth from ideas first put forward by Antonio Sant’Elia, Auguste Perret and Le Corbusier in the early part of the Twentieth Century . . .
. . . to its fall from grace in the latter part of the same century when its supposed beneficiaries, the people who had to live in the concrete blocks that followed the Modernist model, rebelled, and it came to be seen for what it truly was, a failed philosophy.