Jan 04, 1969
48 min
Full-HD

I Love This Dirty Town (1969)

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

Category

Documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

BBC TV

Margaret Drabble

Self - Narrator (voice)

Joan Littlewood

Ann Jellicoe

Sean Kenny

Arthur Dooley

Mitzi Cunliffe

Merfyn Turner

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