Alan Bennett on Edwin Smith



Playwright and screenwriter Alan Bennett discusses the importance of Edwin Smith’s photographs as a record of church buildings.

The image and a longer version of this interview appears in the exhibition ‘Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith’, open from 10 September to 6 December 2014 at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London. Entry is free.

Find out more at http://www.architecture.com/EdwinSmith

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Image: Vestry of St Lawrence, Didmarton, Gloucestershire, 1961
(© Edwin Smith / RIBA Library Photographs Collection)

Interview recorded in 2014

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