Time Shift examines the evolution of a British institution.
Cast and crew recall the making of the 1974 ITV drama Akenfield, a beguiling portrait of rural life in Suffolk.
Anti-social scroungers or idealists in search of an alternative way of life?
An evening of Dennis Potter programmes begins with his Bafta Award-winning musical drama from 1978. 1/6. Down Sunnyside Lane.
Arthur Parker , a Cockney song-sheet salesman, is frustrated by his distant wife and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Bob Hoskins , Cheryl Campbell , Gemma Craven , Kenneth Colley and Nigel Havers star. Continues next Sunday.
First shown on BBC1
Adventures, mishaps and yearnings of a travelling song sheet pedlar on a tight commission, as he tries to make his dreams fit the promises of the lyrics he carries.
How the playwright used popular songs as a powerful dramatic device and to express the depth of his characters in Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective. 4154m
Dennis Potter's controversial and unsettling drama, which was finally screened in 1987 after an 11-year ban from the BBC's Play for Today strand.
A couple struggle to care for their brain-damaged daughter. But their misplaced trust in a charming stranger has terrible consequences.
Starring Denholm Elliott, Patricia Lawrence, Michelle Newell and Michael Kitchen.
(First shown on BBC1)
All Martin wants to do is be left alone with their daughter, but Pattie can't speak for herself so how do her parents know if the charming Martin is all he seems to be?
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