Heaven: Folkwoven In England
BBC2 May 30 19.00
Britain is the most overcrowed of European nations: the same population as France with a third of the land mass. Yet, to an extent otherwise unknown on this contient, the British, throughout the twentieth century, shunned urbanism. They fled, in search of rural utopias called garden cities of which Letchworth was the first. It was a social experiemnt on a par with the Welfare State, a social experiment that affected us all and still does. Its legacy is Britain’s ubiquitous, banal sprawl. Yet it all started so charmingly with naked dew-bathers, vegetarian mystics, toga’d theosophists and sandal-makers roaming through Hertforshire clay fields.
Director: Tim Niel
Producer:
MARTHA WAILES
Series Producer:
ALLAN CAMPBELL
Directors:
TIM NIEL
COLIN MURRAY
FRANCIS HANLY
ROBERT PAYTON
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