Visions of Change: the evolution of the British Television Documentary 1950-1969

Tx BBC2 1965-1967

“Plunder is the programme in which television lives in the past – its own past”

Michell Raper (producer & presenter)

“A Portrait of Gilbert Harding by Lionel Hale with excerpts from What's My Line, Face to Face… and recorded reminiscences from John Betjeman , Jean Metcalfe and Sir Compton Mackenzie” BBC Two, 23rd January 1966

“...the amount of archival material is woefully small. I think we shall be able to run until the end of the year, but after that, unless some fresh hoard is discovered in the Regions we may have to shut

up shop, or completely revamp the format”Michell Raper

22 February 1966