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Exploring The Wednesday Play’s Legacy At 60 – 02.04: ‘Fable’ (BBC1, 27 January 1965) The Wednesday Play (1964-70, or 1965-70) was a landmark BBC drama series, following ITV’s lead with Armchair Theatre (ABC & Thames, 1956-74) in amplifying working-class voices. Canadian m…

Post #13 for #TheWednesdayPlayAt60 blog. 60 years ago today, John Hopkins's FABLE was on, a Swiftian, anti-racist tale where racial power dynamics are inverted. This confronted White British viewers with the banal evil realities of Apartheid South Africa.
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Exploring The Wednesday Play’s Legacy At 60 – 02.03: ‘The Navigators’ (BBC1, 20 January 1965) The Wednesday Play (1964-70, or 1965-70) was a landmark BBC drama series, following ITV’s lead with Armchair Theatre (ABC & Thames, 1956-74) in amplifying working-class voices. Canadian m…

Sixty years to the day it was first shown on BBC One, here's a piece trying to piece together Julia Jones's first TV play, The Navigators. It received a mixed reaction, but had a wide reach, appealing to more than the Circus on ITV #TheWednesdayPlayAt60 maysbritain.home.blog/2025/01/20/e...