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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.
Classic play about three working-class young women who live, work and play in Battersea.
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.
Das „Wednesday Play“ zeigte einmal pro Woche ein hochklassiges Drama im Fernsehen. Die Fernsehspiele zeitgenössischer, zum Teil umstrittener Autoren und Regisseure wie Dennis Potter,...
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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.
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 ...
