Three Streets in the Country – Michael Frayn
November 3rd, 2012
This film formed part two of the five day series Where We Live Now, in the week beginning Monday 19th February 1979. I was lucky enough to see it at Kings College London on Friday 12th February 2010.
Now the BBC has broadcast London on Film – The Suburbs, a collection of clips taken from archive films. At least one (I suspect more) of these clips are taken from Three Streets in the Country. Judge for yourself, the most obvious Michael Frayn clip is shown at 12m 5s – 12m 31s in which he mentions the title of the film.
“When this estate was built it was just three streets in the country, they ended precisely here, where the tarmac stops, and there was a pond, and a rolling landscape of open farmland. Then the pond was filled in and concreted over, and the whole rolling landscape became a vast rolling street scape, and we were living in the country no longer.”
As for a re-broadcast of the whole of Three Streets in the Country, not to mention Where we live now, we will have to cross our fingers and wait, but the day is drawing closer.
Now available to watch