As our politics becomes ever more polarised, Channel 5's move to revive one of British television's most influential series deserves to succeed Reflecting on the impact of the BBC drama series Play for Today, for which he was a producer and director in the late 1970s, Richard Eyre described its weekly broadcast as a "social occasion" that was hard to ignore. "You could resent it, you could look forward to it," …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM on August 20, 2025