Play for Today Season 12
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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1970Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Play for Today Season 12 Full Episode Guide
Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.
A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the Manor.
A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the same
During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught in traffic
James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complaining landlady in a run-down area of London, while dreaming of his lover Stephen, left behind.
The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II