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| | | | | Listen to Jim White reveal his own celluloid highs and lows in a slideshow | | | | Jim White attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at the University of Bristol, though maintains most of his education came on the terraces at Old Trafford.
A founding member of staff at the Independent in 1986, he moved across to the Guardian ten years later, where his contributions have won the sports columnist of the year. A regular on Saturday Review and Front Row, he can also be frequently heard on Radio 5, where he was awarded a Sony Gold award for a documentary about the demise of Wembley Stadium.
Cinema has been a lifelong passion since his dad took him to see Lawrence of Arabia when he was a child and he returned twice a day every day for the next week to see the film over and again. After a youth largely spent oscillating between the football pitch and the local flea pit (his first date was at, bizarrely, 101 Dalmatians: it was all that was on) these days his favourite movies depend on his mood. The Godfather Part Two if in need of an epic, High Society for an uplift of the soul, This Is Spinal Tap when jokes are required. Though his children have shown him that there is not a lot wrong with Toy Story.
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| | | The 60th Anniversary of D-Day
From the outbreak of the Second World War to the D-Day invasion, British culture was undergoing major change and nowhere was that more evident than in the picture houses of Great Britain. In a special edition of Back Row, as part of Radio 4's D-Day commemorations, Jim White will be reflecting on cinema in the war, notably that of 60 years ago.
Ronald Neame, the 93-year-old former cinematographer, producer and director, whose films included Noel Coward's In Which We Serve, looks back on the trials of filmmaking as the bombs fell around the studio set and film historian Jeffrey Richards recalls the 'sexualisation' of Britain as the casualty figures mounted and people began to live for the moment.
Please note that audio for this edition of Back Row will not be available on this website until after the programme's transmission on Radio 4 on Saturday聽05 June聽2004 at 5.30pm.
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