Jonathan Woodham contributed to the BBC’s series of 'The Reunion', broadcast on 24 and 29 August 2003
15 Aug 2013
Jonathan Woodham contributed to the BBC’s recent series of The Reunion, broadcast on 24 and 29 August 2003. The programme, devoted to the Festival of Britain, brought together architects and designers from the 1951 Festival to reminisce and reflect on the subsequent impact that the exhibition had on their lives. Those involved were Sir Terence Conran, furniture designer Robin Day, textile designer Lucienne Day and architects Leonard Manasseh and Jean Symons.
Jonathan discussed opposition to the Festival and questioned the extent to which the design ideas on show really influenced the homes of ordinary people at the time. The other contributors were Jonathan Glancey (Architecture and Design Editor of The Guardian) and Brian Aldiss, the science fiction writer, talking respectively about the influence of the ‘Festival Style’ and experiences of futuristic architecture as a visitor.
