Your Heritage: The River Tyne
As the Cold War bristles with menace in the 60s, the youth at Kielder Workmanâs Club celebrate free time with an American dance called the âTwistâ. But itâs the Faustian pact with industry this brilliant travelogue focuses on first as it maps the path of the River Tyne. The sounds of heavy machinery and graft pitch us into Newcastleâs shipyards and collieries, whilst drugs spin off a machine called Bliss in Winthrop Laboratoriesâ production-slick war against pain.
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1962-01-01
