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Drama Up to Now

on BBC Radio 4 FM

John Russell Brown presents the first of eight programmes on drama in Britain since the War.
1: A New Sense of Reality The first production of Osbornes Look Back in Anger in 1956 heralded a new movement in the British theatre. Old conventions were set aside and playwrights found new ways to reflect living concerns and reality.
JOHN RUSSELL BROWN traccs the development of this process and the part played in it by John Osborne , Arnold Wesker , David Storey ,
Charles Wood and David Edgar. Producer DENNIS SIMMONS For notes please send sac 91/2" x 61/2" to Drama Up to Now (30/CE), BBC, London, WIA 1AA

Contributors

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John Russell Brown
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John Russell Brown
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John Osborne
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Arnold Wesker
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David Storey
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Charles Wood
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David Edgar.
Producer:
Dennis Simmons

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