The Wednesday Play — Season 6

Aug 19691h 15m

Sept 19691h 15m

Oct 19691h 15m

A shy clerk suffers from his colleagues petty office politics and contemptuous treatment of him, but this weekend, as a deeply involved train spotter, the closing of an old tunnel is his big adventure. On the way up, he encounters a well off couple with a daughter that hates them, and an Army Sergeant whose men hate him. The hotel he stays at is run by a fellow railway enthusiast, with a gay son that hates him, and he meets a famous signal designer with a daughter that hates him.

Oct 19691h 15m

A story about growing up, falling in love and settling old scores in the unfriendly environment of a big city.

Oct 19691h 15m

A woman who suspects her husband of having an affair reveals her suspicions at a party.

Oct 19691h 15m

The history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.

Oct 19691h 15m

A schoolmaster takes to drink.

Nov 19691h 15m

Two young Australians on holiday in London find that the "old country" has its problems.

Nov 19691h 15m

The story of an up-and-coming businessman.

Nov 19691h 15m

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.

Nov 19691h 15m

In the first part, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives ther

Dec 19691h 15m

A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.

Dec 19691h 15m

Young Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.

Dec 19691h 15m

A couple seek a desperate remedy to the problem of a burdensome parent.

Jan 19701h 15m

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

Jan 19701h 15m

Jan 19701h 15m

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

Jan 19701h 15m

A tragi-comic study of a Northern funeral.

Feb 19701h 15m

Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War

Feb 19701h 15m

A young man befriends an elderly couple, claiming to be their grandson.

Feb 19701h 15m

A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

Feb 19701h 15m

Two Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare.

Mar 19701h 15m

A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

Mar 19701h 15m

Mar 19701h 15m

Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.

Mar 19701h 15m

Apr 19701h 15m

Apr 19701h 15m

Apr 1970

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centres around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.

Apr 1970

A young man from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

Apr 1970

May 1970

Emma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.

May 1970

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.

May 1970