A Tyne Tees Television interview with English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and social commentator John Boynton Priestley. Seated behind a desk in his library or study smoking a pipe J.B. Priestley answers questions from a Tyne Tees Television reporter/presenter seated across from him. The first question asked is on the ‘North Country character’ which he doesn’t believe in with the exception possibly of those living in the Dales or Lake District. He answers a question of ‘Englishness’...

A Tyne Tees Television interview with English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and social commentator John Boynton Priestley. Seated behind a desk in his library or study smoking a pipe J.B. Priestley answers questions from a Tyne Tees Television reporter/presenter seated across from him. The first question asked is on the ‘North Country character’ which he doesn’t believe in with the exception possibly of those living in the Dales or Lake District. He answers a question of ‘Englishness’ and the English character, politics and socialism, as well as how he writes. In the final part of the interview he answers questions on things he believes in such as extrasensory perception (ESP). He is also asked about his collection of pipes.