Synopsis
First transmitted in 1959, John Betjeman is filmed at different London locations introducing and reciting four of his poems.
Further Information
Other Archive resources
A Passion for Churches
Sir John Betjeman, poet laureate, visits and explains the architecture of various churches in the Diocese of Norwich. Among the churches he visits are Sandringham church on the Queen's private estate, the Holy House of Our Lady of Walsingham and Norwich Cathedral.
Metroland
An exploration of the English rural idyll with John Betjeman's 1973 meditation on the residential suburbs which grew up alongside the Metropolitan Line, the first steam underground in the world.