- Chantal (Virginia Leigh) and Zach (Caleb Verzyden) are strangers with a lot in common. "Waiting for Summer" follows these lost urbanites through their struggles to heal wounds left by self-destructive, single-parent childhoods. Walking away from her own wedding and committing a serious indiscretion at work se…
- Mrs. Thornley (Liz Smith) leads a rather miserable existence in Salford. She lives with her husband, Jim (Clifford Kershaw), a night custodian at a toy factory, and their grown daughter, Ann (Polly Hemingway). Mrs. Thornley is a maid who works for an imperious upper-middle class woman, Mrs. Stone (Vanessa Harris). Betw…
- BBC 4/9/82; series ed Alan YentobDocumentary for the Arena series which examines the methods by which drama and film director Mike Leigh devised his "plays" of social manners through the directed improvisations of his actors. With Alison Steadman, Sam Kelly, David Threlfall, Eric Allan, Marion Bailey, Brenda …