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An Enchanted Place

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The Hundred Acre Wood in the Ashdown Forest, Sussex, is under attack from a new road, but an unlikely group, inspired unconsciously by Winnie the Pooh, fights back as true NIMBYs. Underpinning the 'not in our backyard' story, is the question of 'progress' versus the need for a human scale and a gentler pace to life, whilst protecting a unique, beloved, ancient woodland. Touches lightly on the themes of life, death, nature, the human spirit and meaning As a BAFTA winning film maker, Jonathan Stedall writes from a deep awareness of our interconnectedness with nature and the world.
Jonathan Stedall has made documentary films for over fifty years, largely at the BBC. There he worked with John Betjeman, Laurens van der Post , Cecil Collins, Malcolm Muggeridge, Alan Bennett, Ron Eyre, Bernard Lovell, Theodore Roszak, E.F. Schumacher, Mark Tully and Ben Okri. He has also directed major biographies on Tolstoy, Gandhi, C.G. Jung and Rudolf Steiner. His film about a Camphill school in Scotland for children with special needs won a British Film Academy Award in 1968, and later work was nominated by BAFTA and the Broadcasting Press Guild. His book Where on Earth is Heaven?, published by Hawthorn Press in 2009, was singled out by John Cleese as 'the most annoying book I have ever read, as the author seems to have had a more interesting life than I've had.' His collection of poems, No Shore Too Far, published after the death of his wife in 2014, was described by Stephen Gawtry, Editor of, Watkins Mind Body Spirit, as 'beautiful, poignant and inspiring'.
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