Archive Hour

Stephanie Flanders, Economics Editor of Newsnight, tells the story of her father Michael Flanders, whose partnership with Donald Swann formed one of the great comic duos. Rare archive reveals Michael's forgotten career as an actor and his campaigning work for rights for the disabled. 

Listen to a specially recorded performance of an early Flanders song 'Gluttony', commissioned by the 1974 Cheltenham Festival.

View early photographs from the Flanders' family album : a portrait of Michael Flanders from around 1937, and three shots from 'Go to It', a Westminster School production he staged in the West End in August 1940 - in which Tony Benn was a stagehand. Flanders plays 'The Great Marvello'

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