BBC Arts

Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love and War (2020x3)

Air date: Mar 17, 2020

Wartime memories and experiences as seen through the cinematic eye of Harry Birrell. In 1928 and at the age of eleven, Harry Birrell was given his first cine camera. ‘The greatest toy a child could ever receive,’ he would say. His obsession with making movies would span the rest of his life, despite the onset of blindness. Narrated by Richard Madden.