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Post by adriane17 on May 4, 2009 15:06:33 GMT
Does anyone know if this still exists please? From 1959 or thereabouts and featured footage of then still existing sites in Whitechapel and, I believe, interviews with contemporaries' children.
Farson himself was a very interesting character.
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Post by Richard Bignell on May 4, 2009 19:33:26 GMT
As far as I'm aware, no copies still exist.
The BFI have two episodes of Farson's Guide to the British, neither of which cover the Ripper.
Richard
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Post by Philip Hindley on May 5, 2009 9:55:00 GMT
I remember that JACK THE RIPPER documentary with Farson I seem to remember it was very creepy, I think it was because that film had just come out with Lee Patterson so it was topical at the time.
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Post by Kev Mulrenan on May 5, 2009 14:00:16 GMT
Farson was hilarious.
V posh and old school.
I loved it in Beat City where he basically calls all Scousers a load of hard-drinking ruffians. Ironic as he was an alkie himself.
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Post by adriane17 on May 5, 2009 17:39:41 GMT
Indeed - Farson used to be a regular in The French House (in which a thirsty Michael Elphick chr my shoeistened my shoes in the gents once while extolling the virtues of a certain Tory author & playwright - not!) & Norman's along with The Colony Room Club. Sadly I wasn't in Farson's circle to ask him when I could.
Shame it no longer exists as it featured much footage of sites which still existed then but no longer do.
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