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Nudism, Children’s Games & Racist Tories: Britain Through the Eyes of Daniel Farson

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Nudism, Children’s Games & Racist Tories: Britain Through the Eyes of Daniel Farson
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As the BFI releases it's second volume of films by broadcaster Daniel Farson, Juliet Jacques looks back to a mid-century UK at once start startlingly different and also, perhaps, disturbingly similar to our own
The British Film Institute’s two volumes of ITV programmes ask us to spend a lot of time with Daniel Farson. The broadcaster built a reputation in the late 1950s as a fearless interviewer of ordinary and extraordinary people, in stark contrast to the deferential style set by the BBC. This

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