Synopsis
Author and poet Owen Sheers visits South Wales, the setting for his book Resistance, which was inspired by the tales he heard growing up of a secret rural army trained to hold off a potential German invasion during the second world war.
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Other Archive resources
The Film Programme | Resistance
"Resistance" a counterfactual film that encompasses the struggle between invading Nazis and Welsh farmers. Interviews with Owen Sheers and Amit Gupta.
Night Waves | Owen Sheers
Rana Mitter talks to Owen Sheers about the film of his debut novel 'Resistance,' which imagines what would have happened if Germany invaded Britain in World War 2.