Woodfall Films

Witness History

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, History

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🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Woodfall Films changed British cinema. First established in 1958, it made films with working class actors about working class lives. The driving force behind it was the producer and director Tony Richardson. Vincent Dowd has been speaking to Rita Tushingham who starred in a classic Woodfall movie 'A Taste of Honey', and to Desmond Davis who filmed 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'.

Photo: Actress Rita Tushingham in 'A Taste of Honey'. (Credit: Woodfall Films)

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. You're listening to
1:00.6	the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service I'm Vincent
1:04.8	Dowd. In 1958 a film company started in Britain called Woodfall. By
1:10.7	international standards it was never big initially the aim was just to produce a
1:15.6	screen version of the play Look Back in Anger but ambitions grew and eventually
1:20.7	would fall took British cinema into completely new areas.
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