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You are warmly invited to a special screening of Joan Littlewood's Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), the first British movie to be released in the US with English subtitles! Tonight, Wednesday 4 March @ St Philips' Church, 185 Mill Road, CB1 3AN A sailor (James Booth) returns home to find his wife (Barbara Windsor) has shacked up with a bus driver who is now raising her baby - of doubtful paternity - as his own. Filmed on location in London's East End at a time of rapid urban development and social change, the film lovingly explores the lost world of the docklands, warts and all. Introduced and with discussion led by Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University). Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) is the fifth of six events the series 'Reproduction on Film: Outlaws', put on by the Generation to Reproduction programme with funding from the Wellcome Trust. For more information and (optional) online booking: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/outlaws To learn more about the Generation to Reproduction project: http://www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk