Britain in the 1920s is a world that will be familiar to most people, if at all, through the medium of still photography in black and white. But thanks to one film-maker's early experiments with colour in the early part of that decade and some painstaking restoration work from the British Film Institute, a series of films will shed light on life on the streets in the early part of the twentieth century.
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"The Open Road" is a series of films shot by Claude Friese-Greene between 1924 and 1926 on a journey from Land's End to John O'Groats. In April 2006 BBC 2 will screen “The Lost World of Friese-Greene” presented by Dan Cruikshank, telling the story of the journey. Moving Stories Inspired by this road movie, BBC Radio Sheffield is running a competition to write a five minute radio play based around the theme of Moving Stories. Each play should feature a journey, arrival, departure or travel element. The winning five radio dramas will be recorded at BBC Radio Sheffield using professional actors and then they’ll be broadcast on the Rony Robinson programme to coincide with the BBC2 screenings of Claude Friese-Greene’s film in April. The closing date for entries is 28th February 2006 and we’ll be making the dramas in March 2006. Use the links on the right to download an entry form in MS Word format, which should be returned to the address indicated as a cover sheet to your script. You can also obtain an entry form by phoning the BBC Radio Sheffield Action Desk on 0114 267 5444. | 
