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The Wednesday Play was known for uncompromising dramas reflecting burning contemporary issues in a Britain undergoing massive social change. Plays like Cathy Come Home and The Big Flame, just two of Ken Loach’s nine surviving Wednesday Plays – all available in the Mediatheque – challenged the old order, while writers like David Mercer and John Hopkins pushed at the limits of the new ...
The Wednesday Play. Top-rated. Wed, May 3, 1967. S6.E25. Message for Posterity. An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposing set of values when they were both young. Both men are now old and of little ...
The BBC 's Wednesday Play is synonymous with 1960s television. Its name evokes memories of sensational drama and controversy, but its range was much broader than that, encompassing many genres and styles. Its origins have become obscured over the years, but The Wednesday Play was a phoenix from the flames of the BBC's under-performing drama ...
The Wednesday Play. Top-rated. Wed, May 3, 1967. S6.E25. Message for Posterity. An elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposing set of values when they were both young. Both men are now old and of little ...
A rescreening of the "Thursday Theatre" episode Photo Finish, repeated on BBC1 under the "Wednesday Play" label. Rate. S5.E2 ∙ A Hero of Our Time. Wed, Sep 28, 1966.
Wed, Nov 20, 1968. Part of the BBC's celebrated 'Wednesday Play' series of the 1960s, this early work by Dennis Potter is set in an isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see ...
Wed, Dec 8, 1965. Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant.
