Memorable TV Plays

I loved Blue Remembered Hills. The title alone is fabulous - someone told me it came from a famous poem, can't remember what.

Just watched the 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility. Great actors, including Alan Rickman - I love anything with him in it, whether as Professor Snape in Harry Potter, or Hans in Die Hard....

Does anyone remember 'Fear eats the Soul'? It is a German production about an older woman, a cleaner, who becomes the lover of a handsome young Turkish guest worker. She is not the typical older woman of such productions - she was no Helen Mirren. She was a dumpy plain German Hausfrau type. It worked really well though. I saw a subtitled version years ago, then I found it was part of the film curriculum on my German uni course.

I like Willie Russell plays, such as Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita. I love 'Rita' so much, that we did an extract from it in our U3A performance group. I was Rita What a laugh - a 67 year old Rita. Fun though.

Do you remember Willie Russell's "Our Day Out" - I think it was Willie Russell?

I also remember many years ago seeing "Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont" on the TV and though I can't really remember it, I do remember enjoying it.

How original to have an older "Rita" - I can see that it would still work since the issues raised are not essentially age-related (though I expect some sort of "tweeking" had to be done?)

Another Mike Leigh play with Alison Steadman, the amazing Nuts in May. I had great difficulty taking groups from the Dorset school I taught at on trips to Purbeck for ages afterwards, because all I could hear was Candice Marie.
I am not going to start singing "We're going to the zoo she said", I am not....

Also, The Race for the Double Helix, about Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin and the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Loved "Nuts in May". Also, about 30 yrs ago, there was a Mike Leigh play on TV called "Grown ups", which I thought was hilarious. Never seen it since or heard it mentioned.