Based on the life and poetry of Boleslaw Taborski, the film explores how life experiences affect creativity.
Poet, theatre critic, World War Two veteran and retired BBC radio journalist Bolesaw Taborski reminisces about his life, and revisits places from his childhood and youth. Taborski talks about pre-World War Two Torun in which he was born, about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in which he took part, and about the Polish Section of the BBC Radio World Service in London, in which he worked for many years. Taborski also reflects on the nature of poetry, and how his life experiences have influenced his own work. The film is rich with anecdotes concerning events such as Armstrong's moon-landing, which took place while Taborski was on night shift at the BBC. The film touches upon Taborski's work as a writer, theatre critic and translator of the plays of Karol Wojtya (the late Pope John Paul II), and is illustrated with examples of Taborski's poetry. There is a rare glimpse inside the studios and winding corridors of the no longer existing Polish Section of the BBC Radio World Service, in the impressive Bush House in London.
