television drama… High Spirits and Low Morale 29 Nov 201826 Jan 2023 This is a story not only about a forgotten story, but about a forgotten tragedy. It is a two-part tale. Bear with me. In the ever-changing sea of crime series, one…
television drama Savage Ms-Siah 5 Jun 201729 Oct 2020 “We’ll only ever change things by going on with what we believe.” In the early 2000s, I was researching a planned history of the BBC's Play for Today drama strand…
television drama Impish Hillmans 28 Apr 201729 Oct 2020 “I remember this thing I saw on telly once about a couple that had this old car they didn’t want, and they kept trying to get rid of it. They…
television drama A Dreadful And Despairing History 7 Mar 201729 Oct 2020 Few, if any, remember a late-night series of half-hour plays under the cumbersome umbrella title Conceptions of Murder, broadcast at various points throughout 1970 in several ITV regions, with no…
television drama Fear The Reaper 28 Feb 201729 Oct 2020 Sometimes you blow the dust off something that leaves you breathless with excitement. Nigel Hinton’s 1979 television play The Reaper has done just that. All I knew of it a…
television drama A Light Touch And A Good Ear 27 Feb 201715 Feb 2022 When I wrote an obituary of the enchanting writer Julia Jones for The Independent, I said that she "quietly and assuredly told bewitching, humane stories of simple lives in crisis,…
Dreams Gathering Dust 