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102 relations: Abigail's Party, Alan Bleasdale, Alan Clarke, Alan Garner, Alan Gibson (director), Alan Plater, Andrew Davies (writer), Armchair Theatre, Arthur Hopcraft, Bar Mitzvah Boy, Barry Hines, BBC, BBC News, BBC One, BBC Two, BFI TV 100, Blue Remembered Hills, Borstal, Boys from the Blackstuff, Brimstone and Treacle, British Film Institute, Channel 4, Conservative Party (UK), David Hare (playwright), David Rose (producer), David Storey, Dennis Potter, Devil, Drama, Edna, the Inebriate Woman, Film4 Productions, Gangsters (TV series), Graeme MacDonald, Graham Reid (writer), Hard Labour (film), Home (play), Home Sweet Home (1982 film), Ian McEwan, Irene Shubik, ITV Playhouse, Jack Rosenthal, Jan Moir, Jim Allen (playwright), John Bowen (British author), John Hopkins (writer), John Osborne, Just a Boys' Game, Just Another Saturday, Ken Loach, Kenneth Branagh, ..., Kevin Spacey, Kiss of Death (1977 film), Leo McKern, Leon Griffiths, Lindsay Anderson, London, Mark Lawson, Member of parliament, Michael Apted, Michael Gove, Mike Leigh, Mike Newell (director), Nuts in May, Our Day Out, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Pebble Mill Studios, Penda's Fen, Penguin Books, Peter McDougall, Play for Tomorrow, Rhys Adrian, Richard Eyre, Robin Redbreast (TV play), Roland Joffé, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Rumpole of the Bailey, Screen One, Screen Two, Screenonline, Scum (television play), Social realism, Spend, Spend, Spend (play), Stephen Frears, Stephen Poliakoff, Television in the United Kingdom, Television play, Thames Television, The Daily Telegraph, The Evacuees, The Flipside of Dominick Hide, The Foxtrot, The Guardian, The Old Vic, The Price of Coal, The Rank and File, The Spongers, The Times, The Wednesday Play, Theatre 625, United Kingdom, Willy Russell. Expand index (52 more) »
Abigail's Party
Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh.
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Alan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale (born 23 March 1946) is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people.
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Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer.
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Alan Garner
Alan Garner OBE (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.
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Alan Gibson (director)
Alan Gibson (April 28, 1938, London, Ontario, Canada – July 5, 1987, London, UK) was a Canadian director active in British film and television.
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Alan Plater
Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s.
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Andrew Davies (writer)
Andrew Wynford Davies (born 20 September 1936) is a Welsh writer of screenplays and novels, best known for House of Cards and A Very Peculiar Practice, and his adaptations of Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch and War & Peace.
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Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974.
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Arthur Hopcraft
Arthur Hopcraft (30 November 1932 – 22 November 2004) was an English scriptwriter, well known for his TV plays such as The Nearly Man, and for his small-screen adaptations such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Hard Times, Bleak House, and Rebecca.
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Bar Mitzvah Boy
Bar Mitzvah Boy is a British television play, written by Jack Rosenthal and originally transmitted in the Play for Today anthology series on BBC1.
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Barry Hines
Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL (30 June 1939 – 18 March 2016) was an English author who wrote several popular novels and television scripts.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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BBC Two
BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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BFI TV 100
The BFI TV 100 is a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre to have been screened.
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Blue Remembered Hills
Blue Remembered Hills is a British television play by Dennis Potter, originally broadcast on 30 January 1979 as part of the BBC's Play for Today series.
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Borstal
A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
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Boys from the Blackstuff
Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama series of five episodes, originally transmitted from 10 October to 7 November 1982 on BBC2.
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Brimstone and Treacle
Brimstone and Treacle is a 1976 BBC television play by Dennis Potter.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.
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Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.
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David Hare (playwright)
Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director.
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David Rose (producer)
David E. Rose (22 November 1924 – 26 January 2017) was a British television producer and commissioning editor.
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David Storey
David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player.
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Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.
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Devil
A devil (from Greek: διάβολος diábolos "slanderer, accuser") is the personification and archetype of evil in various cultures.
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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
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Edna, the Inebriate Woman
Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama starring Patricia Hayes.
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Film4 Productions
Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation.
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Gangsters (TV series)
Gangsters is a British television series made by the BBC and shown from 1975 to 1978.
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Graeme MacDonald
Graeme Patrick David MacDonald (30 July 1930 – 30 September 1997), known as Graeme MacDonald and sometimes credited as Graeme McDonald or Graham McDonald, was a British television producer and executive.
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Graham Reid (writer)
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Hard Labour (film)
Hard Labour is a 1973 television film, directed by Mike Leigh and produced by Tony Garnett which aired as part of the BBC anthology series Play for Today.
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Home (play)
Home is a play by David Storey.
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Home Sweet Home (1982 film)
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, (after Grown-Ups), and with composer Carl Davis – the musical score featured a quartet of basses – (Davis had also provided the music for 1977s The Kiss of Death).
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Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.
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Irene Shubik
Irene Shubik (born 1929) is a British television producer, notable for her contribution to the development of the single play in British television drama.
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ITV Playhouse
ITV Playhouse is a British television anthology series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp.
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Jack Rosenthal
Jack Morris Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations.
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Jan Moir
Jan Moir (born August 1958) is a British newspaper columnist.
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Jim Allen (playwright)
James Allen (7 October 1926 – 24 June 1999) was a socialist playwright from Miles Platting, Manchester, Lancashire, best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach.
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John Bowen (British author)
John Griffith Bowen (born 5 November 1924) is a British playwright and novelist.
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John Hopkins (writer)
John Richard Hopkins (sometimes credited as John R. Hopkins; 27 January 1931 – 23 July 1998) was a British film, stage, and television writer.
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John Osborne
John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms.
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Just a Boys' Game
Just a Boys' Game (1h 15min) is a 1979 Play for Today which aired 8 November 1979, written by Peter McDougall and directed by John Mackenzie.
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Just Another Saturday
Just Another Saturday is a Play For Today (BBC) about the Orange walk culture transmitted 7 November 1975 on BBC1.
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Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English director of television and independent film.
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Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1959) is a British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast in Northern Ireland.
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Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer.
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Kiss of Death (1977 film)
The Kiss of Death is a 1977 BBC TV film.
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Leo McKern
Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles.
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Leon Griffiths
Leon Griffiths (15 February 1928 – 10 June 1992) was a British writer for TV and film.
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Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Mark Lawson
Mark Gerard Lawson (born 11 April 1962) is an English journalist, broadcaster and author.
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Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.
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Michael Apted
Michael David Apted, (born 10 February 1941) is an English director, producer, writer and actor.
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Michael Gove
Michael Andrew Gove (born 26 August 1967) is a British Conservative politician, who was Secretary of State for Education from 2010 to 2014 and Secretary of State for Justice from 2015 to 2016.
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Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.
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Mike Newell (director)
Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for film and television.
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Nuts in May
Nuts in May is a television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, filmed in March 1975, and originally broadcast as part of the BBC's Play for Today series on 13 January 1976.
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Our Day Out
Our Day Out is a television play about impoverished children from Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
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Oxford
Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Pebble Mill Studios
Pebble Mill Studios was a television studio complex owned by the BBC located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.
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Penda's Fen
Penda's Fen is a British television play which was written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house.
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Peter McDougall
Peter McDougall (born 1947, Greenock, Scotland) is a Scottish television playwright whose major success was in the 1970s.
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Play for Tomorrow
Play for Tomorrow is a British television anthology science fiction series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 in 1982.
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Rhys Adrian
Rhys Adrian Griffiths (28 February 1928 – 8 February 1990) was a British playwright and screenwriter.
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Richard Eyre
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.
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Robin Redbreast (TV play)
Robin Redbreast is a Play for Today (BBC) about pagan rural customs and their interaction with modern society, transmitted on 10 December 1970 on BBC1.
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Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) is an English-French film director who is known for the Oscar-winning movies The Killing Fields and The Mission.
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is a drama school in London, England that provides training for film, television and theatre.
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Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey was a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer.
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Screen One
Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 between 1989 and 1993.
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Screen Two
Screen Two was a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1994.
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Screenonline
Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.
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Scum (television play)
Scum is a 1977 British television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke.
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Social realism
Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and to voice the authors' critique of the social structures behind these conditions.
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Spend, Spend, Spend (play)
Spend, Spend, Spend is an episode of the BBC's Play for Today anthology series first transmitted 15 March 1977Michael Brooke, BFI screenonline page on BBC1, recounting the life of football pools winner's wife Viv Nicholson.
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Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director.
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Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff, CBE, FRSL (born 1 December 1952) is a British playwright, director and scriptwriter.
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Television in the United Kingdom
Television in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising.
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Television play
From the 1950s until the early 1980s, the television play was a television programming genre in the United Kingdom.
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Thames Television
Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Evacuees
The Evacuees is a 1975 episode of the BBC's Play for Today series written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Alan Parker.
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide
The Flipside of Dominick Hide is a British television play first transmitted by the BBC 1 on 9 December 1980 as part of the Play for Today series.
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The Foxtrot
The Foxtrot is a television play by Rhys Adrian, first broadcast on BBC One in 1971 as part of the Play for Today strand.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Old Vic
The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.
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The Price of Coal
The Price of Coal is a two-part television drama written by Barry Hines and directed by Ken Loach first broadcast as part of the Play for Today series in 1977.
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The Rank and File
The Rank and File is a 1971 filmed television play written by Jim Allen and directed by Kenneth Loach.
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The Spongers
The Spongers is a 1978 television play by Jim Allen which was directed by Roland Joffé and produced by Tony Garnett.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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The Wednesday Play
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970.
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Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Willy Russell
William Russell (born 23 August 1947) is an English dramatist, lyricist and composer.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_for_Today
