Season 14 • Episode 21
LatestWhen best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.
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.
Writing
Pinter, Potter, Bleasdale—British drama's murderer's row.
Acting
Every episode a masterclass, every role career-making.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This slot launched Mike Leigh, Dennis Potter, and Alan Clarke—essentially inventing modern British screen drama through sheer volume of experimentation.
Thatcher's government actively monitored episodes for 'left-wing bias'; several were delayed or censored, making the archive a political battleground.
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