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Updates
Biographies & Topics: list of biographies and topics covered on the site
Dramas by decade: list of dramas covered on the site
Contributors: list of all site contributors
Contributors: David Rolinson

Newest posts

  • Frank Cox 1 September, 2021
  • Sleepers (1991) 1 December, 2020
  • Wycliffe (1994-98) 31 January, 2019
  • A Day in Summer (1989) 28 February, 2018
  • Re-recording live drama: the fallibility of the television drama record 1 January, 2018
  • ‘An ideology red, white and blue in tooth and claw’: David Edgar’s Destiny (1978) – Part 3 of 3 2 June, 2017
  • ‘An ideology red, white and blue in tooth and claw’: David Edgar’s Destiny (1978) – Part 2 of 3 1 June, 2017
  • ‘An ideology red, white and blue in tooth and claw’: David Edgar’s Destiny (1978) – Part 1 of 3 31 May, 2017
  • James O’Connor 31 March, 2017
  • Call the Midwife Notes #2: Style and meaning; or, Trixie’s fingernails 28 February, 2017

Major updates

    We often update posts with new information. Here are some of the biggest recent revisions with new research findings:
  • Out of this World, Philip Saville: Play for Today biography. Updated in April 2022.
  • Doctor Korczak and the Children, The July Plot, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) – Myth Versus Reality, Stalingrad, Underground, Wear a Very Big Hat, Peter Luke, James MacTaggart, Cedric Messina,Don Taylor. Updated in March 2022.
  • Introduction to Play for Today section. Updated in October 2020 with new material and revisions.
  • Underground. Updated in November 2018 with new material and substantial revisions.
  • Out of This World. Updated in June 2018 with new material, images and revisions.
  • You dirty old man! Masculinity and class in Steptoe and Son. Updated in February 2016 with new material, images and revisions.
  • The Good Companions. Updated in November 2015 with new material.
  • Ian Curteis. Updated again in April 2015 with new material.
  • Stalingrad. Replaced in December 2014 with a new version containing much new material.
  • Traitor. Updated in December 2014 with new material.
  • Tony Parker. Updated in November 2014 with new material.
  • Ian Curteis. Updated in October 2014 with new material.
  • Underground. Updated in August 2014 with new material.
  • The Creature. Updated in January 2014 and March 2014 with new material.
  • The July Plot. Updated in January 2014 with new material.
  • Doctor Korczak and the Children. Updated in January 2014, with new material.
  • Michael Barry. Updated in November 2013 with new material and a list of credits.
  • Iain MacCormick. Updated in October 2013 with new material and a list of credits. Further amended in January 2014 with new material.

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