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I Love This Dirty Town

I Love This Dirty Town

1969•48m•6.0/10
Documentary

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6.0/10(1)

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

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Production

BBC TV

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Margaret Drabble

Self - Narrator (voice)

Joan Littlewood

Ann Jellicoe

Sean Kenny

Arthur Dooley

Mitzi Cunliffe

Merfyn Turner

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