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Afternoon
Five Minute Films BBC Series: Episode 2/5
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Tony Garnett Mike Leigh Mike Leigh |
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The Wednesday Play
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Jack Gold,
- Writer: Jim Allen
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The Wednesday Play
The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
- Producer: James MacTaggart,
- Director: Ken Loach,
- Writer: Neil Dunn,
- Story Editor: Tony Garnett
Tony Garnett’s 1965 introduction in the Radio Times…
A Light Snack
Five Minute Films BBC Series: Episode 1/5
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Tony Garnett Mike Leigh Mike Leigh |
Off-Cut: Law and Order – 1916
The 1916 uprising in Dublin and the mini series about judicial corruption, Law and Order, are welded as one in my mind. Connection?
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The Wednesday Play
Best Script Award at the Fourth International Television Festival, Prague 1967
Main Prize International Jury of Critics 1967
Who is Kate Winter? That is the question. She is, on the outside, an unexceptional girl from an ordinary semi-detached background. Her mother says ‘ We are respectable people in this house.’ But tonight the lace curtains are opened and you are invited to probe inside-if you can bear it.
“Compellingly written, brilliantly acted and directed with cunning efficiency” – DENNIS POTTER, NEW STATESMAN
“All the intensity and suggestiveness of ‘Cathy’. It was powerful stuff – R. W. COOPER, THE TIMES
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Ken Loach,
- Writer: David Mercer
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The Wednesday Play
Winner: Italia Prize for Television 1968
Cathy and Reg fall on hard times when Reg is injured at work. They begin a slide into poverty, debt and homelessness, until the authorities forcibly take Cathy’s children away…
“A programme to remember” – OBSERVER
“Few can have watched … without being deeply moved” – TIMES
“Dynamite … a magnificent piece of observant, sparse writing, direction, and production” – DAILY MIRROR
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Ken Loach,
- Writer: Jeremy Sandford
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Play for Today
An everyday account of the unceasing work undertaken by a harassed wife and mother.
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Mike Leigh,
- Devised By: Mike Leigh
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The Wednesday Play
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: John MacKenzie,
- Writer: Leon Griffiths
“We need drama people believe in”
STEWART LANE talks to Tony Garnett, the producer of tonight’s B.B.C.- 1 play. (1966)
TONY GARNETT, producer of “Cathy Come Home”, tonight’s play on BBC 1 began his career as an actor, appearing in several television plays.
In 1964 he joined the B.B.C. as a script editor, assisting in the work on the Wednesday play series.
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BBC TV Mini-Series
The judicial system examined from four points of view: detective, criminal, lawyer, and prisoner.
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Les Blair,
- Writer: G.F. Newman
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Play of the Month
Werner Reger , a young German officer in the Second World War. prepares to test a new parachute with his regiment for the ultimate benefit of his Führer. As he moves through the early-morning routine in the barracks and out to the tower for a jump, his mind travels in a series of flashbacks over the curious conflicts of his childhood and youth.
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Anthony Page,
- Writer: David Mercer
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The Wednesday Play
- Producer:: Tony Garnett,
- Director:: James MacTaggart,
- Writer:: Nemone Lethbridge
Cathy Come Home – 50 years on
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Cathy Come Home. Cathy Come Home let everybody off the hook. It didn’t put the boot in where it should have done. Earlier this year I wrote a piece for the PCS Union explaining why I believe this.
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Play for Today X 2
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Ken Loach,
- Writer: Barry Hines
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TV Movie
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Jack Gold,
- Writer: [B. Brecht], George Tabori
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Play for Today
- Producer: Tony Garnett,
- Director: Les Blair,
- Devised By: Les Blair
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Off-Cut: Ballykissangel The BBC Files
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Production Notes from Beautiful Thing Doyen attacks “poison” in TV industry Ken Loach Variety Dec 15, 1997 The Observer - TV's Secret Godfather Cathy Come Home left out in cold by BBC row Kes It's a Cop Out ‘Cathy Come Home’ and ‘Accuracy’ in British Television Drama When This Life entered our lives... Dot.com drama starts up on BBC2 Welcome to seethru INTERFERENCE - CV: Tony Garnett In Praise of the Great Unknowns Autumn 2000 BBC 2 Season The Cops call it a day after three series Setting sites on the Net The beat goes on... (Bafta 2000 magazine) Attachments article AfterLife (circa 2000) A REAL BOBBY World Champion It’s a Big World After All Research by Karen Shepherdson (2001) Articles by TG
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"We need drama people believe in" 
Tracking Changes - BFI Interview 2014 'A typical reaction was a snigger... I was making a film about the wrong kind of bird' 
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Tracking Changes - BFI Interview 2014 'A typical reaction was a snigger... I was making a film about the wrong kind of bird' On BBC News 'HARDtalk' with Stephen Sackur On BBC Radio 3 'Free Thinking' with Matthew Sweet Podcast - BBC Radio 5 Live Afternoon Edition - July 11 Theatre Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 6, April-June 1972 THIS LIFE, THIS ART KICKING OVER THE TRACES – Interview with Tony Garnett Extracts from an Interview August 2000 A REAL BOBBY Meet the producer Speeches
Sydney Newman Memorial Service - 5th February 1998 Tony Garnett talks about THE COPS - November 1998 Recipe for a dust-up (Drama Forum) Performance With Banners Held High - the BBC and miners strikes Screenplay A Message For Graduates - Creatively Disrupt Crisis - Ending Homelessness Notes from the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, 1996 Reading University Speech 1998 For the love of it: in praise of the amateur
Tony Garnett talks about THE COPS - November 1998 Recipe for a dust-up (Drama Forum) Performance With Banners Held High - the BBC and miners strikes Screenplay A Message For Graduates - Creatively Disrupt Crisis - Ending Homelessness Notes from the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, 1996 Reading University Speech 1998 For the love of it: in praise of the amateur And More...
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