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.

By 1969, narrator Margaret Drabble is channelling Jane Jacobs, in another in the series of documentaries about London's planning, from deep in the vaults of the BBC archives
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

A City Crowned with Green First transmitted in 1964, architectural critic Reyner Banham's film brings out the unique character of London and explains how London has grown in size over the past 500 years.

Reposting a link to Reyner Banham's 1964 BBC doco (viewable in UK for limited time) on London's urban growth, in complement to the comprehensive bibliography in Nigel Whiteley (2002) "Reyner Banham: historian of the immediate future". Hitchcock-like cameos by narrator. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Chocolate and chips and a reposted tweet to celebrate the life of the much missed Sophie Watillon on her 60th birthday. I met her twice only and didn't really know all she had accomplished until much later. She was a great player, a generous teacher, and a warm person who touched a lot of people.