{"id":19101,"date":"2021-09-18T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/fighting-on-film-baskeyfield-vc\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T13:00:13","slug":"fighting-on-film-baskeyfield-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/fighting-on-film-baskeyfield-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting On Film: Baskeyfield VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T3pLgi1O-S0?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the last of this month\u2019s Market Garden specials we bring you a very special look at an amateur feature from the 1960s.<br \/>\u2018Baskeyfield VC\u2018 tells the incredible story of the actions of John Baskeyfield who was the only Stoke-born recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. Produced, written and directed by Bill Townley over 3 years, this film is a hidden gem within the war movie genre.<\/p>\n<p>From showing the exploits of Lonsdale force dug in around Oosterbeek Church to Baskeyfield\u2019s VC action itself. The film is a feat of what a driven and passionate film maker can achieve on a micro-budget!<\/p>\n<p>The film was lovingly restored by Ray Johnson of the Staffordshire Film Archive, we talk to Ray about this process during the episode.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to follow us on Twitter &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightingOnFilm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightingOnFilm<\/a> and on Facebook &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fightingonfi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fightingonfi<\/a>&#8230;. 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Produced, written and directed by Bill&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/fighting-on-film-baskeyfield-vc\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fighting On Film: Baskeyfield VC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}