About the film
Metro-land is a BBC documentary film written and narrated by the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Sir John Betjeman. The film was produced by Edward Mirzoeff, and first broadcast on 26 February 1973. It celebrates suburban life in the area to the northwest of London, which grew up in the early 20th century around the Metropolitan Railway (MR), later the Metropolitan line of the London Underground.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).