Play for Today - Season 12
Episodes
E1: Country
The story of the disintegration of an aristocratic country estate after World War II
E2: London Is Drowning
A docudrama about what would happen if London was hit by severe flooding
E3: A Room for the Winter
James, an expatriate South African anti-apartheid fighter, deals with his nightmares and his complai
E4: No Visible Scar
A nurse is subjected to an interrogation after giving medical treatment to a terrorist leader.
E5: Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
In Belfast, Ruby has a cold and is caught in the rain while Iris is looking for work and gets caught
E6: Protest
In an adaptation of Václav Havel's play, a dissident, newly released from prison for political reaso
E7: United Kingdom
Two men on a local council fight the system when forced with massive spending cuts.
E8: PQ17
During World War II, a British officer is ordered to abandon a Russian convoy.
E9: The Factory
A manager, a foreman, and two workers are all that remains of a factory yet labor relations stay the
E10: England's Green and Pleasant Land
A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Cour
E11: A Cotswold Death
A police inspector investigates the murder of an Arab sheik who had become a village's Lord of the M
E12: Under the Skin
Three women involved in different ways in the women's movement.
E13: Commitments
Politics and relationships during the last years of the Heath government
E14: Life After Death
Meg: We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half.
E15: The Silly Season
Malcolm goes through life hating the mundanity of his existence as a factory worker and an unloved h
E16: Too Late to Talk to Billy
A family in Belfast deals with life after the death of the mother from cancer
E17: Willie's Last Stand
Willie and his friends notice the passage of time around them, and how society is changing as their
E18: Tishoo
Frank has dedicated 19 years to researching a cure for the common cold, and is almost ready to publi
E19: Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about pos
E20: A Sudden Wrench
"My life is over - and I just didn't notice it passing." A call to a radio helpline leads to depress
E21: Eve Set the Balls of Corruption Going
Adolescents will always be obsessed by the same old subject, even when they are educated by nuns. Si
E22: Whistling Wally
While Wally was happy there wasn't much wrong with the world, and pints seemed a small price to pay