AG/TV/9 - Return to Saigon
Reference code
AG/TV/9
Level of description
File
Title
Return to Saigon
Date/s
1971-1989
Quantity & Format
3 sub-files Mixed
Subject
Vietnam -- Description and travel
Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
Scope and content
The BBC TV film 'Return to Saigon', was a documentary written and presented by AG about his first-ever trip to Vietnam in 1988, six years after the novel's publication, to visit the sites of his novel. The unit was the first TV camera crew to visit Dien Bien Phu since the decisive battle there in the l950s ended French colonial rule. Grey is filmed crawling in the typical Viet Cong Cu-chi tunnel network, he visits a guerilla hideout in the Marble Mountain at Da Nang, and also interviews survivors at My Lai where frenzied American troops massacred women and children. General Vo Nguyen Giap, the victor of Dien Bien Phu and architect of later victories over China and the United States, is seen in a rare interview conducted in French with translation.
The three sub-files in this file contain research papers, scripts of the film text, and supporting travel documentation.
For slides and photographs on Vietnam, refer to Series AG/PHO.
The three sub-files in this file contain research papers, scripts of the film text, and supporting travel documentation.
For slides and photographs on Vietnam, refer to Series AG/PHO.