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The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic adaptations of fiction (and occasionally stage plays) also featured.
- English
- BBC 1
- 28 October 1964 –, 27 May 1970
The Wednesday Play è una serie antologica britannica di spettacoli televisivi trasmessa su BBC1 per sei stagioni dall'ottobre 1964 al maggio 1970.
The Wednesday Play: Created by Sydney Newman. With Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones. Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John Hopkins.
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- 3 min
- Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby
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Classic play about three working-class young women who live, work and play in Battersea.
The Wednesday Play, first broadcast on 28 October 1964, started a run of single dramas that developed a reputation for controversial and ground-breaking material. It included Cathy Come...
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 ...
The Wednesday Play. Strand of groundbreaking and often controversial television dramas. The Vortex (72 mins) Start watching.
