Just released on DVD Love thy neighbour (1973) is a rather interesting piece of history.

If you are old enough to have watched the TV series as I did (this film was its pilot) you will perhaps realise that these days it would not be considered very politically correct! Even though you could argue that clearly the shows writers were parodying racial strife in seventies Britain and showing up racists like Eddie Booth.

The premise is that Eddie Booth and his wife live in a council house. Next Door is Bill who is of West-African descent. The two wives Barbie and Joan get along fine, but the two boys are a microsm of the racial strife that existed in Britain at the time always bickering and throwing racial expletives at each other. Into the mix Eddie is the local union representative and constantly trying to justify his ridiculous racial theories alongside class politics…