My friend Peter Howden, who has died aged 80, was a programmer at independent cinemas in London, with notably long tenures at the Everyman in Hampstead and the Rio in Dalston.
His career first took shape at the Electric cinema in Notting Hill, west London, in the late 1960s, from which point his programming helped to influence the direction of other London repertory cinemas, with the Ritzy in south London and the Scala in north London both taking their cues from what he had been doing out west.
