Episode 45: Thamesmead on screen

In the late 1960s architects and social planners created Thamesmead, a town-sized council estate. From its opening to the present day filmmakers have used the area's concrete landscape as a backdrop.
We're joined by Midnight Video's Jim Hall to discuss ASBO superpower drama Misfits, Stanley Kubrick's dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange, Peter Sellers vehicle The Optimists of Nine Elms and homantic comedy Beautiful Thing.

Our theme music is an excerpt from X2 by the Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.