The movie
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2 hour version, first broadcast 8pm, 20th June 2016 on Resonance FM in London. The music, films and music for films which have shaped people’s lives. Roz and Tim visit the plaque to London Underground map designer Harry Beck at Finchley Central station, and discuss the British Transport film 'Under Night Streets' in light of Beck's imagining of London's underworlds. We discuss historical memory and the counter culture with Alex Niven, poet, academic and author of 'Folk Opposition'. More... * Original broadcast, 1 hour version of the show https://soundcloud.com/the_beekeepers/music-for-films-finchely-central-under-night-streets * Under Night Streets www.imdb.com/title/tt0991286/ * Harry Beck en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Beck * Harry Beck plaque, southbound platform, Finchley Central Underground Station openplaques.org/plaques/11724 * Folk Opposition by Alex Niven http://www.zero-books.net/books/folk-opposition On our three year mission to explore the subterranean sources of London’s culture we’ve created the Scala Underground Film Map, which imagines the Tube as a film festival programmed by the legendary cinema at Kings Cross. * The Scala London Underground Film Map 1916 – 2016 www.thebeekeepers.com/scalaunderground/ London’s radicals, underworlds and counter-cultures over a century of cinema, through a Tube map re-imagined as a film festival programmed by the legendary Scala cinema at Kings Cross.