A great introduction to land rights in the UK made by Marion Shoard in 1987… sadly very little has changed. Do read her excellent books This Land is Our Land and Right to Roam.
Tag Archives: Documentary
Seventy Years in the Planning (60 mins)
BBC Radio 4 presents Will Self walking the London green belt in search of the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act which optimistically tried to end the post-war British conflict between field and city. He retraces a countryside ramble he took with his father, the journalist, town planner and political scientist Peter Self – a leading exponent of the principles enshrined in the ’47 Act. Will argues that the public consensus to build a New Jerusalem has been squandered in the past seventy years, leading to the present day housing crisis. He goes back to first principles and argues that the offer made in 1947 by the Minister of Town and Country Planning, Lewis Silkin to build a better Britain is as relevant today as it was then. Will says that if it was an opportunity missed, then the fault doesn’t lie exclusively with the planning system, rather with our lack of desire to make the planning system work.
The Super Rich And Us (60 mins)
Excellent TV documentary by Jacques Peretti with a section on land and property which is compelling. You can follow Jacques Peretti here – @jacquesperetti – https://twitter.com/jacquesperetti
Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. In part one, he looks at why the wealthy were drawn to Britain and meets the super-rich themselves.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04xw2x8/the-superrich-and-us-episode-1
Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. In the final part, he looks at how inequality was pinpointed as a business opportunity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04yn2yq/the-superrich-and-us-episode-2
This has now been succesffuly cleansed off the internet – I have a copy on my computer which I am looking to put online soon.
John Ball and the Peasants’ Revolt (60 mins)
BBC Radio 4 hour long documentary by Melvyn Bragg on John Ball and the Peasants’ Revolt – connecting it with the English Civil War, the Diggers, the Levellers, and Blake’s words which became the song ‘Jerusalem’.
This has now been successfully cleansed from the internet so lucky I took my own backup of it to share with you here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/voices/voices_reading_revolt.shtml
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