My piece on Welland and Apted’s Play for Today ‘Kisses at Fifty’ for the Royal Holloway website FORGOTTEN TELEVISION DRAMA, celebrating PLAY FOR TODAY’S 50th anniversary.
By Tom May
Written by Colin Welland, directed by Michael Apted and produced by Graeme McDonald. Broadcast on BBC1 at 9.25pm on Monday 22 January 1973
Bill Maynard as Harry
When leaving my last job as a lecturer in a Further Education College, I enjoyed a pint with soon-to-be former colleagues in the Town Wall pub in Newcastle upon Tyne in late August 2018. I was about to start my three-year studentship researching a history of Play for Today, while the others were about to start another year of teaching A Levels. I remember one chat with an Art lecturer born in the 1950s; I asked him which Plays for Today he most remembered. Without hesitation, he replied: Kisses at Fifty…
Colin Welland was an art teacher who went into acting at the age of 26. He was one of many Play for Today writers who had initially…
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