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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.
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Following Evelyn ' s success at the Prix Italia, Adrian adapted the play for television. Although largely remaining faithful to the radio production, Adrian incorporated several new scenes including a scene set in a pub where The Man and an equally anonymous friend discuss the former's 40th birthday, and a final coda where The Man returns home to his wife after his affair with The Girl has run ...
The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 14 October 1971. "Traitor" was written by Dennis Potter , directed by Alan Bridges , produced by Graeme MacDonald , and starred John Le Mesurier as Adrian Harris, a character loosely based on Kim Philby .
Writing in 1980, Ian McEwan stated: "Initially I wanted to write a play about Alan Turing, one of the founding fathers of modern computers', but his researches provided very little material, 'by this time other facts about Bletchley Park interested me more. By the end of the war ten thousand people were working in and around Bletchley.
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series broadcast from 1970 to 1984. Play for Today may also refer to: Play for Today, an album by The Searchers; Play for Today, an album by Ultrasound "Play for Today", a song by The Cure, from the album Seventeen Seconds
The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 7 January 1971. "Alma Mater" was written by David Hodson, directed by James Ferman and produced by Irene Shubik . In the play civil servant Jimmy Nicholson ( Ian Carmichael ) returns home after a long period working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school , the ...
"The Other Woman" is a 1976 Play for Today which aired January 6, 1976, written by Watson Gould and directed by Michael Simpson. [1] [2] Filmed on a small budget in June 1975, it features Jane Lapotaire, Lynne Frederick, and Michael Gambon. [3] [4]