David Storey

In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

The adaptation of a play and a story of an ordinary family. The father is an alcoholic and a tyrant; the three daughters are long past the marriage age; the son is a poet and a wanderer; and the mother trying to bring them all together. The son's decision to marry and change his ways will shake the little peace left in the house.

David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.