Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · DIR. John Wyver
Overview
Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with many who created the series, including producers Kenith Trodd, Margaret Matheson and Richard Eyre, and directors Mike Leigh, David Hare and Ken Loach.
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00:00:02 This programme contains some strong language and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
00:03:18 Under producer Sydney Newman,
00:06:34 OVERLAPPING CHATTER
00:09:43 ..the sincerity in writers.
00:13:43 who may themselves be writers,
00:16:45 Shakespeare Or Bust,
00:19:46 The degree to which it is not meretricious.
00:23:23 And I really was, I know,
00:27:42 I made my own choices about politics,
00:32:05 I see.
00:36:28 How do you do? Pleased to meet you.
00:40:13 # La, la, la, la, la, la, la...
00:44:41 but also with his love of music and also his intellectual growth.
00:48:24 so that religion is a yucky, unctuous thing,
00:51:58 Their view that there were too many incidents,
00:56:09 of a debate that was raging at the time about immigration.
00:59:56 They kill people.
01:03:32 MUSIC: Alternative Ulster by Stiff Little Fingers
01:08:32 Leave it for the night.
01:12:14 and it's going to be set in the war and it's going to be about a woman
01:15:55 a lot more too! You dried-up old stick!
01:19:48 is quietly and insidiously being eroded.
01:23:20 or two choices as to what you could be watching that night.
01:27:59 It's like leaving a bloody battlefield.
Cast & Characters
Martina Laird
Narrator (voice)
Ken Loach
Self – Director
Mike Leigh
Self – Filmmaker
Tony Garnett
Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
Ann Scott
Self – Script Editor & Producer
Richard Eyre
Self – Director & Producer
David Hare
Self – Writer & Director
Dennis Potter
Self – Writer (archive footage, 1973 & 1977)
Margaret Matheson
Self – Producer
Huw Wheldon
Self – Managing Director, BBC TV (archive footage, 1968-1975)
David Rose
Self – Producer (archive footage, 1988)
Peter Ansorge
Self – Producer & Script Editor
Roy Battersby
Self – Director
Kenith Trodd
Self – Producer
William Hardcastle
Self (archive footage)
Alasdair Milne
Self – Managing Director, BBC Television
Alan Clarke
Self – Director, 'Scum' (archive footage)
Horace Ové
Self – Director (archive footage, 1982)
Rachel Billington
Self – Writer
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,503
Dialogue density16.9 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line01:27:59
Production Record
DirectorJohn Wyver
LanguageEnglish
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