Stephen Peet

February 16, 1920 (age 85)

Penge, south London

He had two older sisters and an older brother, John. Stephen"s father, Hubert Peet (1886 - 1951), was a journalist, who wrote religious news and also edited the weekly Quaker magazine The Friend from 1932 to 1949. He was also an absolutist conscientious objector, who suffered three terms of imprisonment for his refusal to obey military orders. He was, like his father, a conscientious objector in World World War II, serving with the Friends Ambulance Unit in London, north Africa and Greece, where he was taken prisoner, to be interned in Germany. He had begun his career in the late 1930s as a camera assistant in the documentary unit run by Marian Grierson, sister of John Grierson. He worked in the Central Africa Film Unit for seven years, making narrative educational films for village audiences, before work at Independent Television and the British Broadcasting Corporation. He worked with others on the series, including James Cameron. The British Broadcasting Corporation Two series in included a programme - "Prisoners of conscience: Number to the State", no doubt a subject close to Stephen Peet"s heart.

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Stephen Hubert Peet was born on 16 February 1920, in Penge, South London, the youngest child of Hubert William Peet and his wife, Edith Mary, born Scott. His mother"s parents had served as missionaries.

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He had two older sisters and an older brother, John. Stephen"s father, Hubert Peet (1886 - 1951), was a journalist, who wrote religious news and also edited the weekly Quaker magazine The Friend from 1932 to 1949. He was also an absolutist conscientious objector, who suffered three terms of imprisonment for his refusal to obey military orders.

He was, like his father, a conscientious objector in World World War II, serving with the Friends Ambulance Unit in London, north Africa and Greece, where he was taken prisoner, to be interned in Germany.

He had begun his career in the late 1930s as a camera assistant in the documentary unit run by Marian Grierson, sister of John Grierson. He worked in the Central Africa Film Unit for seven years, making narrative educational films for village audiences, before work at Independent Television and the British Broadcasting Corporation. He worked with others on the series, including James Cameron.

The British Broadcasting Corporation Two series in included a programme - "Prisoners of conscience: Number to the State", no doubt a subject close to Stephen Peet"s heart.

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With Yesterday"s Witness, Peet pioneered having ordinary members of the public telling their stories straight to the camera.

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