Wednesday Play instigator Sydney Newman bought some productions from the Canadian Broadcasting Company to the strand, a tradition which lived on into the early years of Play for Today. This adaptation by Fletcher Markle of a story by Katherine Anne Porter set during the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic was the first.
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Thursday, 19.30, 01.05, BBC4For the first time in a while, two consecutive episodes, so it’s a completely different line-up to the last time and some belated debuts for Ian Dury and Sham 69 who we’d have otherwise seen two weeks ago, in a classic Pops juxtaposition with another Cilla flop and the first appearance of a record that, even skipping all the Savile and Travis episodes, you’re going to hear a hell of lot over the next few months.
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