Jumoke Debayo
2021A Kind of Marriage
Mary Ridge
Jumoke Debayo, Willie Jonah
"By local custom, a man may turn from a wife who cannot give him more than one son. But Charles assures Maria that he is a 'modern educated man'. When war drives them back to their village, events force Maria to re-think their marriage." - Radio Times, 1976
A Kind of Marriage
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Ted Kotcheff
Patricia Hayes, Barbara Jefford
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
When the Bough Breaks
James Ferman
Hannah Gordon, Cheryl Kennedy
NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.
When the Bough Breaks
