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Two short films from five decades ago, featuring characters from farming communities in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. All of them were keen to keep alive centuries-old local food and cooking traditions.

In Andrew Snell’s films there is fishing for lamperns on the river Severn in Worcester down to the spectacular trapping of salmon with lave nets in Awre.

On the land, there is everything from a pioneering attempt to make real Gloucester cheese from Gloucester cows to asparagus growing in Evesham and making farmhouse scrumpy for a genuine old cider house.

DIRECTOR: Andrew Snell
SEVERNSIDE (UK, 1973) 25 MINUTES
THE HEART OF ENGLAND (UK, 1975) 25 MINUTES
+ panel discussions
RUNNING TIME 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES

Introduced by filmmaker Andrew Snell
Malvern panel: Charles Martell, Tom Oliver, Simon Cooper

Wednesday 11 March 2026

5:00pm

Malvern Theatres

Location

Malvern Theatres

WR14 3HB

01684 892277

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