THE award-winning documentary Tony Benn: Will And Testament (12A) will have a 4.30pm screening at City Screen, York, on Sunday afternoon.

Directed by Skip Kite, this 95-minute film reviews the veteran politician's life and career, in which he served as a Labour MP for 47 years from 1950 and as a cabinet minister in the 1970s before, in the words of his late wife Caroline, he retired from Westminster to devote more time to politics.

In a series of interviews conducted before his death in March at the age of 88, Britain's longest-serving politician describes his privileged background, his political awakening, his anti-war campaigning, his fiercely held socialist beliefs, and the successes and failures of his efforts to implement them.

Archive news footage and Benn’s personal photographic and film collection illustrate his achievements, and his strongly felt arguments all help to create a history of Britain during the latter half of the 20th century.

Sunday's show will be followed by a live satellite question-and-answer session, broadcast from London's Genesis Cinema. Benn’s friend Samantha Norman, who previously hosted An Audience With Tony Benn, will be in conversation with former BBC political editor John Sergeant,; the Labour MP for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn; Stop The War coalition convenor Lindsey German; and Will And Testament's director of photography, Michael Miles.

Will And Testament won the Audience Award at the 2014 Edinburgh International Award, a public vote that usually goes to a feature film, not a documentary. Tony Benn winning a vote? Plus ca change.