A Foreign Field A Foreign Field A Foreign Field is a 1993 British made-for-television film about British and American Second World War veterans returning to the beaches of Normandy as old men. It is more a drama than a comedy, although it combines aspects of both. It was directed by Charles Sturridge and featured an ensemble cast of American, Australian, British, and French actors and actresses. The title evokes the Rupert Brooke poem "The Soldier". The film was driven into production by Alec Guinness who used his influence with the BBC to make it and with the various famous actors to appear in
That Is All (song) by Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" arranger, John Barham, who says that "musically there was a strong rapport" between himself, Harrison and Wright at this time. The friendship was also based on a shared interest in Eastern spirituality, after Harrison had given Wright a copy of "Autobiography of a Yogi", a text that Ravi Shankar had introduced to Harrison when he visited India in 1966. In his autobiography, "I, Me, Mine", Harrison comments only briefly on "That Is All", saying: "The melody came to me and I then had to think of lyrics. That's all." Commentators have remarked on how,