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Article: The 'lost' city of Craigavon to be unearthed in BBC documentary.
- Article from:
- Portadown Times (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- November 29, 2007
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PORTADOWN writer and satirist Newton Emerson is to unearth the 'lost' city of Craigavon in a new BBC One documentary to be screened on Monday night.
Newton, who was editor of the renowned Portadown News website, presents the 35-minute programme which marks the 40th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone in the greenlands of North Armagh, of what was to become Craigavon.
The documentary studies the origins of Craigavon, which was part of Prime Minister Terence O'Neill's vision of a 'modern' Northern Ireland in the 1960s, and the product of that era's pseudoscientific town-planning concepts which included recreation zones, 'mixed' housing, ...