Laurie Lee was notoriously reluctant to be filmed or interviewed. An acquaintance of mine, David Parker, a film maker, managed to persuade him to be filmed in 1994, and the film was broadcast on HTV West: Laurie Lee's Gloucestershire - A Writer's Landscape. Broadcast again on Channel 4 after Laurie died. David tells me he recorded only a fragment of his playing. But … last year, Penguin published Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape. It's David's edited transcripts of the interviews, with a whole chapter on music. David has been doing talks illustrated by clips from the film at literary festivals, book shops … anywhere that'll book him! And the film is available on DVD.
Derek