Amber Films, 53min, 1983

BBC4 is broadcasting Amber’s new ‘Byker Revisited’ documentary TODAY I’M WITH YOU this month (Sun 12 Sept, 8pm and on BBC iPlayer during in the following week) as part of its Newcastle night, so here on SideTV, we’re offering the opportunity to see the 1983 portrait of the working class Newcastle community, the terraced streets of which were knocked down in the late 70s to make way for the Byker Wall Estate. As the new film grew out of Amber member Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of Byker’s new communities, so this seminal documentary grew out of her photographs from the streets where she lived between 1969 and 1976, when her own house went in the demolition that made way for architect Ralph Erskine's visionary development. More information from the Amber website. SIDETV NEWCASTLE MONTH