Leon Brown
Spirit of ’45 (2013) UK, Ken Loach (89 minutes)
Peterloo directed by Mike Leigh (2018)
Prakash Kona
Luis Bunuel’s Land without Bread (1933)
Kevin Saving
The Edge of Love (Capitol Films/BBC Films, released 2008)
Bright Star (Pathe, 2009)
Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes? (Part 1, BBC2, 9 p.m., 8.12.2009)
Can Gerry Robinson fix Dementia Homes? (Part Two, the inglorious sequel) (BBC2, 9 p.m., 15.12.2009)
A Quiet Passion dir. Terence Davies (Hurricane Films, 2016)
BBC Poetry Weekend 30.9-1.10.17
Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety (BBC2, 9 pm, 30.09.2017)
Strong Language Live (BBC2, 10 pm, 30.09.2017)
Betjeman and Me (BBC4, 7.10 pm, 01.10.2017)
Cornwall’s Native Poet: Charles Causley (BBC4, 8 pm, 01.10.2017)
Men Who Sleep In Cars (BBC4, 9 pm, 01.10.2017)
Alan Morrison
The Innocents (1961) Directed by Jack Clayton (BFI)
The Signalman (1976) adapted by Andrew Davies from the short story by Charles Dickens (BFI DVD)
Delius: Song of Summer (1968) Directed by Ken Russell BFI DVD
Son of Man by Dennis Potter (1969)
Stand Up Nigel Barton! (1965)/ Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1966) by Dennis Potter
To Serve Them All My Days adapted by Andrew Davies from the novel by RF Delderfield
The Brontës of Howarth (1973) Written/Adapted by Christopher Fry (BFS Entertainment, US and Canada Region 1 NTSC, 2003) and Daphne du Maurier’s The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (Victor Gollancz, 1960; Penguin, 1972)
The Devil’s Chore: Being a largely unfavourable comparison of Peter Flannery’s Cromwellian melodrama The Devil’s Whore (2008) with more impressing harbingers such as Winstanley (1975), A King and His Keeper (1970), Children of the New Forest (1977), By the Sword Divided (1983-5), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and To Kill A King (2003)
Whatever Happened To History? The Noughtiesisation of Costume Drama – Being a Right Royal Drubbing of Modern Abominations as The Tudors c. 2008 and a Nostalgic Tribute to the likes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII circa 1970
The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973; Network DVD, 2009)
Noah’s Castle (Southern TV, 1979/1980; Simply Entertainment, 2010) / The Guardians (LWT, 1971; Network DVD, 2010)
The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall. Inspired by a book by William Feaver. National Theatre (2011)
The Hollow Crown Part One: Richard II BBC 2 / The Hollow Crown Part Two: Henry IV Part 1 Part Three: Henry IV Part 2 (BBC2, 2012)
A Field In England (Film4 5/7/2013 multi-platform release)
Red of Night: Dead of Night: ‘The Exorcism’ (1972) by Don Taylor / Robin Redbreast (1970) (BFI, 2014)
I, Daniel Blake Directed by Ken Loach (2016)
To Walk Invisible BBC ( 2016)
Memories of the Future: An Englishman’s Castle By Philip Mackie (BBC, 1978; Simply Home Entertainment)
Make Britain Greaterox Again: 1990 By Wilfred Greatorex and Edmund Ward, Jim Hawkins, Arden Winch (BBC, 1977-8; Simply Home Entertainment, 2018)
To Provide All People: A Poem in the Voice of the NHS by Owen Sheers. BBC Wales, 2018
James Morrison
Gethsemane by David Hare, directed by Howard Davies (National Theatre, 2008)
The Seventies – Dominick Sandbrook (2012)