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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.
The Wednesday Play was a TV series that aired on BBC from 1964 to 1970, featuring plays by various writers and directors on controversial topics. Some of the famous plays include "Up the Junction", "Cathy Come Home", and "Stand Up Nigel Barton".
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Classic play about three working-class young women who live, work and play in Battersea.
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.
In this adaptation of a Jean-Paul Sartre play, three people find themselves sharing a room together with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.
Explore 170 dramas that shaped British TV from 1964 to 1970, including Ken Loach's classics and other diverse genres. The Wednesday Play was a groundbreaking strand that reflected social change and challenged the status quo.
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A mother and son face the truth about one another during a weekend house party in Noël Coward's brilliantly merciless portrait of the darker side of the Jazz Age.
