Andrew Haigh on why ‘Strangers’ had to be filmed in Croydon

Our latest, all-star Under The Flyover podcast from Inside Croydon is a recording from a special event staged earlier this week by the David Lean Cinema.

All Of Us Strangers is the acclaimed movie from director Andrew Haigh, which was named as the British Film of the Year – and with much of it filmed on location in Haigh’s boyhood hometown of Croydon.

At a special screening of the film at the always wonderful arthouse cinema in the Croydon Clocktower, Haigh was interviewed by Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw and the cinema’s patron, Joanna Scanlon.

And Under The Flyover was there to listen in for you…

Hear how Haigh was drawn back to his childhood suburban home in Sanderstead to shoot the film, his memories of seeing Bucks Fizz play at the Fairfield Halls and of growing up in Croydon in the 1980s.

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