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‘This is Three Choirs Country, landscape of the great Anglican cathedrals of the Severn and the Wye. Though Severn and Wye were those rivers’ native names — long before Angle or Saxon, or Christian, or Roman soldier even came. ‘Behind me, there is Bredon Hill, [A.E.] Housman country. And westward, nearer than they seem, the Malvern Hills of Langland Piers Plowman, of Edward Elgar The Dream of Gerontius, Introduction and Allegro. Quintessential visionary England. ‘But Bredon isn’t an English name either. That’s ancient British, or Celtic. Breodun. Hill of the Fort. As for Malvern there, well… that name has been pure Welsh, or British, for a good two thousand years. Moel-bryn. Bare hill. Layer upon layer upon layer of inheritance. ‘What’s in a name? The devil of the lot. Or, in the light of this film, the demon of the lot.’
Title sequence for 1973-74 run of Play for Today.