Post by John Green on May 1, 2022 11:06:05 GMT
That's a hell of a thread title...
In today's Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchins mentions
"Recently I was able to see a bootleg version of a superb BBC TV series from 1970, a dramatisation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Roads To Freedom. It made me sad to recall how good they used to be at this sort of thing. Yet the series is unavailable on any BBC platform."
I saw the repeat in 1971 or '72, and agree that it was excellent. An adaptation of J.P.Satre's trilogy about the Fall of France, it seems highly topical. While it had a screening at the BFI in 2012 (and a partial one a few years earlier) www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-a-complete-screening-of-the-roads-to-freedom-at-bfi-southbank-2012-04-30.pdf in hasn't been generally viewable in over half a century.
What does it take; a petition?
In today's Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchins mentions
"Recently I was able to see a bootleg version of a superb BBC TV series from 1970, a dramatisation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Roads To Freedom. It made me sad to recall how good they used to be at this sort of thing. Yet the series is unavailable on any BBC platform."
I saw the repeat in 1971 or '72, and agree that it was excellent. An adaptation of J.P.Satre's trilogy about the Fall of France, it seems highly topical. While it had a screening at the BFI in 2012 (and a partial one a few years earlier) www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-a-complete-screening-of-the-roads-to-freedom-at-bfi-southbank-2012-04-30.pdf in hasn't been generally viewable in over half a century.
What does it take; a petition?
