- guardian.co.uk, Sunday February 6 2000 18.37 GMT
My first scene is from a film called The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, from 1943. Young Blimp is in a restaurant in Berlin. A band is playing. He sees a German, who was imprisoned in South Africa, and asks the band to play a tune which used to be played in the South African prison. The German is enraged and pays the band to stop. Blimp buys them beer, and they play the tune again. This continues until Blimp and the German are almost spitting at each other.
The second scene is from a film called Proud Valley, with Paul Robeson. A black Pennsylvanian man starts work in a South Wales mine. The other miners are not too happy that he is black until they realise that they are also blackened. In my favourite scene a choir is singing at the eisteddfod, but the lead singer is not present. The conductor is about to sing the solo part when they hear Robeson singing outside and are spellbound.
My final moment is from The Railway Children, when the children see their father again through the steam on the station platform. I am always terribly moved by that moment and so are my children.
