T Dan Smith: Something Funny Happened on the way to Utopia

A special screening and discussion cinema event with filmmaker Tom Draper

In the 1960s, T. Dan Smith had an extraordinary vision for Newcastle. As leader of the City Council, he set out to transform the city through ambitious redevelopment, modern architecture and a belief in a new future for the North East.

But his political career would become entangled in one of Britain's biggest corruption scandals, leaving a complicated legacy that continues to shape Newcastle today.

Made in 1987, Amber Films' T Dan Smith: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia explores the rise and fall of one of the region's most controversial political figures.