Date: 10/08/2011

It is 75 years since the ground-breaking documentary film about the mail train from Euston to Scotland was first screened. The 23-minute long film, Night Mail, covered a routine subject, but succeeded in capturing the public's imagination with a Benjamin Britten score and featuring a now-famous WH Auden poem. [From Richard Buckby]

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Night Mail film celebrated

BBC News

It is 75 years since the ground-breaking documentary film about the mail train from Euston to Scotland was first screened.