Sir Richard Eyre
Film and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre describes how he was inspired by Angus Calder's book The People's War, which relived the experience of ordinary citizens during WWII.
Film and theatre director Sir Richard Eyre describes how he was inspired by "The People's War" by Angus Calder. This social history of the Second World War relives the experience of ordinary citizens during the conflict: "their endurance and patience and their cowardice, complaints, and selfishness, as much as their heroism and humanity." It provided Eyre with a vision - albeit unfulfilled - of social justice, which was in sight during the social revolution of wartime. "So I return to this book, this litany of courage and misery and endurance and hardship - the only book I return to constantly and obsessively - for solace."
Producer: Smita Patel.
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