Play For Today
Play For Today is a drama series on BBC4. Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1970s and 1980s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic drama. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 6 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2024.
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Play For Today
1979 TV film produced by celebrated director Richard Eyre. Scottish hard man Jake McQuillan is determined to emulate the violent reputation of the dying grandfather he idolises.
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Bunny’s wife thinks he is a postman, but in reality he spends his days in the Scottish hills. One day he meets Jody, a fellow walker. A bittersweet tale starring Billy Connolly.
July 2024
A family gathering, a christening and a dance. But it's 1945 and there are plans to be made, family wealth to protect and peace to be won.
June 2024
Dennis Potter's play of lost innocence begins with adults playing children's games in a lyrical summer landscape. But the games of hide-and-seek and war take on a sinister aspect.
May 2024
A Foreign Office defector in Moscow is interviewed by hostile journalists, in Dennis Potter’s play. Starring John Le Mesurier and Jack Hedley.
February 2024
A trilogy of loosely linked stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon set in a Scottish east coast farming community in the interwar years. Dramatised for television by Bill Craig.