In 1951, as Britain emerged from post-war gloom and darkness, the good people of Leamington Spa decided to hold a festival of light. It ran for ten years, and this podcast charts its history through the voices of those who remember it. Join us as we travel back in time to post-war Britain and witness a decade of extraordinary change. Many of those who were at the lights as children are in their 80s now, and it wasn’t easy to track them down. So how did we do it – and why?