Play for Today: The Evolution of Television Drama

Year: 1975
Place: London
Publisher: Davis-Poynter
Edition: 1st
Language: EN
Pages: 192
Condition: FN
Cover condition: VG
Binding: HC

- CONTENTS:

PREFACE
1 Scripts, authors and script-editing - background
2 Background of drama at the BBC
3 Preparing for Channel 2. Learning to be a producer
4 How to become a producer by default
5 The birth of 'Wednesday Play'
6 Producing 'Wednesday Play' and 'Play for Today'
7 The documentary approach
8 Observers and creators: democracy versus autocracy?
9 The autocrats
10 'The Blockbuster': Edna, The Inebriate Woman
11 The world of the novelist: William Trevor, The Gentle Gerontocrat
12 Making up a season: variety and budget
13 Experiments in form: the innovators
14 Is there anybody out there watching? Audience and archives
APPENDIX: Edna