THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP

1943 BBC Two, 2pm ÌÌÌÌÌ

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are possibly the greatest partnership in the history of British cinema and this satirical epic may just be their masterpiece. It follows the career of a British soldier, Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey), through the Boer War then two World Wars, as the forces of modernity gradually and irrevocably leave him behind. Moving but funny, serious but light of touch, it’s a classic.