Woodman Talks With Stephen Barnard

Humphrey Jennings: Wartime documentary maker
Having spent the 1930s as a poet, surrealist painter and co-founder of the Mass Observation research project, Suffolk-born Humphrey Jennings found his true niche in the Second World War as one of the finest documentary film makers in UK cinema history. Rejecting tub-thumping propaganda in favour of a quieter, more reflective depiction of wartime life, his films such as ‘Listen to Britain’, ‘I Was a Fireman’ and ‘A Diary for Timothy’ remain uniquely atmospheric visual records of Britain's home front. Illustrated with excerpts from his films, this talk traces the story of this remarkable artist-in-celluloid, whose life was tragically cut short by a climbing accident in Greece in 1950.

£20 per person.
Book a table beforehand for dinner!

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