Tom: The Night the Lights Went On
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Tom Raworth
Tom, Maggie O'Sullivan and I had spent the day walking around
London & Tom pointed out the place his father worked and also
the place where he had one of his first jobs. When Tom was young,
during the Blitz, the city was blacked out at night. But Tom
remermbered a night, at the end of the war, when crowds
gathered in the streets and the lights went on. 1945.
London, May 14, 2008
(mp4, 24 sec., 9.2 mb)
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