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Alan Bennett Season on BBC4
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To celebrate the famous playwriters birthday
BBC4 broadcasting series of dramas/plays
Starting on Sunday Night
10pm Sunset across the Bay
11.10 Talking Heads-A Cream Cracker under The settee with Thora Hird
11.45 Talking Heads- Her Big Chance with Julie Walters
BBC4 broadcasting series of dramas/plays
Starting on Sunday Night
10pm Sunset across the Bay
11.10 Talking Heads-A Cream Cracker under The settee with Thora Hird
11.45 Talking Heads- Her Big Chance with Julie Walters
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Today:
8:05pm - The Abbey With Alan Bennett (1/3)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b
Thursday 9th May:
8pm - Mark Lawson Talks To Alan Bennett
9pm - The Lady In The Van
10:40pm - Talking Heads: Bed Among The Lentils
11:30pm - Talking Heads: Waiting For The Telegram
12am - Talking Heads: Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2024/05/09
This was was my first watch of the film, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Thanks, I've added it to my watchlist. Love finding things like this to watch.
Watched it last night. Great slice of life.
It was very good,an unrecognisable Bob Peck as the couple’s son and a brief appearance by Paul Shane of Hi-de-Hi! fame.
I’d never seen this programme before, beautifully written as always by Alan Bennett.
I really miss these slice of life dramas these days. Entirely script lead, rather than plot heavy.
It was absolutely perfect
Alot of people thought of Liz just as Vera Duckworth in Corrie
They had no idea she had a great acting career prior to that
A sign of the quality of the cast back then
'Kisses at Fifty' another great she appeared in
I love Alan, I've got a few of his books and re-read quite often. He's so observational, especially about day to day life for all sorts of people, and a great writer.
I can't remember it exactly but when a girl with a short skirt walks past on the seafront Mam says something like "It's no wonder the mills are closing'.
I'm a bit annoyed that BBC haven't put Sunset Across The Bay in their iPlayer Play For Today section.
I put PFT in my watchlist specifically to pick up this sort of thing.
Kisses at Fifty is in there, I keep meaning to watch it.
Agree
Something so simple. No special F/x or hunk in trunks
You were literally sat next to Thora in this play
You could almost touch her & pick her up off the floor
Such was the quality
Its so sad to think TV was once of such fantastic quality, compared to the £1 shop stuff we have today
I’m literally watching it on IPlayer as I write?
Yes, I've just checked that out as I'm going to watch it in the next week or so.
It's not in the Play for Today section, in fact there's only two in there now, but is is there as a stand alone.
Says it is available for 11 months.
No - 29 days and counting....
11 months on my iPlayer version. (Is there more than one?)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02n9tb6/sunset-across-the-bay
No worries.
Would never have found it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Good fun recognising the Corrie cast members amongst others.
I was hoping they'd add to the PFT section so I could check every week or so for anything I'd missed in the schedules.
They're not always easy to spot if they're listed by their titles and PFT isn't in the title.