Youth Hostelling: The First 100 Years

Youth Hostelling: The First 100 Years

Folks might like to know that BBC4 - digital BBC t.v. channel - is
transmitting a programme about Youth Hostelling - using archival
footage - starting on May 7.

Synopsis

Nation on Film documentary telling the story of youth hostelling,
which was founded in 1909 in Germany and was established in Britain in
1930, through fascinating archive film discovered in a storeroom at
the Youth Hostel Association headquarters in Derbyshire.

These films chart the progress of the movement, as well as our
changing attitudes towards 'youth' and the countryside. The images
show young people enjoying a new sense of freedom - hiking, rock
climbing, folk singing and even the odd bit of skinny-dipping.

The collection includes everything from silent movies through to
video, and all promote the YHA's central mission of encouraging young
people to enjoy the benefits of the countryside. Most of the films
have not been broadcast before, as they were originally shown in
cinemas, hostels and community halls.

Contributors include Lord Puttnam, hostel workers, film-makers, actors
and historians.

Broadcasts
Thu 7 May 2009 21:00 BBC Four
Fri 8 May 2009 00:25 BBC Four
Fri 8 May 2009 03:15 BBC Four
Mon 11 May 2009 19:30 BBC Four
Tue 12 May 2009 02:45 BBC Four

See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k9c1p

Enjoy - CJB

CJB wrote:

Youth Hostelling: The First 100 Years

Folks might like to know that BBC4 - digital BBC t.v. channel - is
transmitting a programme about Youth Hostelling - using archival
footage - starting on May 7.

Is it produced by Alan Partridge?