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An Evening in Metro-Land Friday 24th February 5.30pm.
The film Metro-Land should be familiar to many of you and 26 February 2023 is the 50th anniversary of the first screening of the film. We are delighted to host a special evening celebrating this event for a film that enjoys classic and cult status in its celebration of a part of London’s suburbia and a personal journey by John Betjeman through some of his favourite parts of London using the Metropolitan line as the route. We will be joined by Society Vice President and Metro-Land producer, Eddie Mirzoeff and we hope to have other special guests joining us too to celebrate the milestone. We will also be looking at how Metro-Land looks these days and there will be a sprinkling of poetry and prose readings to complement the film.
Eddie believes he has persuaded the BBC to screen Metro-Land on the evening of the actual anniversary Sunday 26 February so our event should set this viewing up well.
Please let Steve Jackson know via sonjack1@aol.com if you want the zoom link and nearer the date he will be glad to send you this with an update on proceedings.
A unique event!
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