Michael Wilding reads excerpts from his novels The West Midland Underground and Reading the Signs whilst revisited some of the places in Worcestershire that inspired him.
We see exteriors of Wilding's old school: the Royal Grammar School in Worcester, boys from the school running a cross country race, the Rivers Severn and Salwarpe and the Droitwich Canal. We also see Worcester city centre and b/w shots (probably from Midlands News) of the Worcestershire Regiment and parades in the 1960s.
Wilding also talks about the nineteenth century writer Adam Lindsay Gordon who attended the same school and also moved to Australia.
We also see countryside and villages in Worcestershire cut to music by Elgar.
Central would like to thank:
Len Anderson and the Droitwich Canal Trust; Richard Cowan; Dr Neville Davis; The Royal Grammar School, Worcester; Hagley Riding Stables and Joanne Wheeler; The Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham University; The Rev. John Willis
Research - Vikki Worthington
Production Assistant - Helga Dowie
Lighting Cameraman - Bob Bolt
Underwater Camera - Grahame Wickings
Sound - Bill Dodkin, Ian Turner
Film Editor - Michael Mulliner
Producer - Jim Berrow
Directed by David Dunn
Central Television production number 1187/88.
Repeat transmission 19 August 1990.