Ronald Blythe

As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.

Writer Ronald Blythe narrates a film essay about his life, work and friends in Suffolk and Cambridge. With extracts from Akenfield and other works

As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.

Writer Ronald Blythe narrates a film essay about his life, work and friends in Suffolk and Cambridge. With extracts from Akenfield and other works