Play for Today : Season 2

A British aristocrat turned Russian spy is visited in Moscow by Western journalists

Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama written by Jeremy Sandford which was transmitted by the BBC as part of the Play for Today series on 21 October 1971. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Irene Shubik produced it. The play deals with an elderly woman, Edna, who wanders through life in an alcoholic haze without a home, a job or any money. A rambling, pathetic yet defiant woman, Edna sleeps rough and begs for food and shelter and the drama follows her progress as she moves from hostel

The wife of a headmaster discovers that he has been physically abusing his students

A man gets revenge on a pub owner

A story about four elderly "loonies" living in a rest home

In Cornwall, just before World War I, a striking miner befriends a cop

A story about unemployment and the Black Movement in Jamaica

A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course

A couple and their daughter take a trip to Africa

The adventures of three Derbyshire miners going fishing