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 2022. A total of 8 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2024.
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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.
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A Foreign Office defector in Moscow is interviewed by hostile journalists, in Dennis Potter’s play. Starring John Le Mesurier and Jack Hedley.
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.
Episodes 2023
Colin Welland’s play about what takes place after Harry kisses barmaid Audrey in front of the whole pub on his fiftieth birthday.
Episodes 2022
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.
Third in a trilogy of plays by Graham Reid. Two years after Norman Martin left his family to seek work in England, news of his return home is met with mixed reactions.
Belfast 1978. The Martin family, one year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son Billy and daughter Lorna are in charge of their younger sisters Ann and Maureen.
First in a trilogy of plays about the Martin family. Billy's parents are estranged, and he finds it difficult living under the same roof as his father.