PLAY FOR TODAY -- Moving on the Edge ( 14th Season )

[@tominnis8353]

I watched this as a teenager and could never really appreciate it in the way I do now, Thankfully someone (you) had the forethought to record these plays so that we can re-visit them with the benefit of age, Thank you!

[@executivedecision6141]

I didn't record any of these shows. Someone got them off the DVDs and uploaded them. I'm just sharing what they did. But glad you're enjoying them! 🙂

[@tominnis8353]

@@executivedecision6141 Thank you for your honesty. It doesn't matter how you got them. The fact is that you did. So, anyway, many thanks!

[@a_leaf]

And someone like me born in 1985 could discover them now. I really enjoy this series because of the Quietness of how they speak to another and the video quality....it feels very real in a genuine way. Very refreshing than what is available today seems to induce anxiety.

[@Talentedtadpole]

Can't thank you enough for uploading these plays ❤

[@lindastanley229]

Eleanor bron is beautiful and unique.

[@cajsheen2594]

Anna Massey's beautiful voice was wonderful to hear again! XXX

[@voulafisentzidis8830]

Thank you so much for sharing these with us! They're wonderful! I've heaps of plays which I recorded from that era. If I can figure out how to upload, I'll do so.

[@donnajk4423]

Please do 😊

[@globallove]

do you have "Three for the Fancy"? The 3rd part of a trilogy beginning with The Fishing Party. The first two installments are available online already.

[@voulafisentzidis8830]

@@globallove sadly, I don't. But I'll research so thanks for the suggestion.

[@Talentedtadpole]

Another Rose Tremain TV play was "Hallelujah Mary Plum". BBC 2, 1980. I'm hoping it will show up on here. How beautiful Eleanor Bron is in this!

[@EM-lz9kg]

We kept swimming as a child in the 70’s lots of exercise & we had to be obedient Now it seems ludicrous teachers get in trouble for telling a rude child off . Have things gone to far the wrong way ?

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Political correctness destroyed all of the social norms.

[@buskingkarma2503]

Yes it's liberalized political correctness at its worse these days!,I was born in the 70s and if my grandparents/people from that generation was still alive to see how things are now,they'd be so confused!😆

[@oppressednolonger1497]

yes. they have. its not you.

[@zeddeka]

​@@buskingkarma2503of course they would. Just like their grandparents would have been confused at how things were before that. The world is not preserved in aspic and never was. The old have been baffled by the young since the dawn of time. What you're saying has been said a trillion times by different people for thousands of years

[@zeddeka]

That's hilarious. There are records since the start of civilisation saying the same thing. The old grumbling about the young and "how things aren't like they were" has been around since the dawn of humanity.

[@valerieHamilton-wt3jf]

That was excellent! A particular delight was the banter between the English class students 😂

[@hank1519]

Very sensitive and well done. I wonder how many people spontaneously recover from such mental conditions.

[@cajsheen2594]

Love Eleanor Bron! ❤ XXX

[@SefLew]

Is this Dorien in Birds of a Feather?❤

[@cajsheen2594]

​@@SefLewI think that was Lesley Joseph, Hun! ❤ XXX

[@robertjsmith]

"She could have had an accident," "She has a coil Laura" "i mean a road accident" LOL

[@bimmeroo0906]

Laura : played by Rosalie Crutchley was in the Checkmate episode of The Prisoner.

[@Paul1510WB]

Yes ...she was great in that.

[@pauls.9228]

Wonderful. Incredible actors, and the music is Frank Bridge’s Cello Sonata, a perfect choice for this turbulent drama.

[@barbaradagg6283]

Thank you! I really wanted to know what it was 🙂

[@davidfogarty2220]

Very underrated, Brit composer.

[@Elizabeth-zp2ir]

I hadn't realised this play was by Rose Tremain until the end; I've always enjoyed her novels and the acting was excellent.

[@flashtheoriginal]

Just superb. I wonder if ED can trace "The Muscle Market" with Pete Postlethwaite? I cant trace it anywhere and have spent half a lifetime searching for it

[@williaminavanbottle9297]

Eleanor Bron...A great actress.

[@richardcummins5465]

Absolutely loved Eleanor Bron ❤❤

[@dieselgav]

The man with his wife in the auction scene (15:28) is Nigel Bradshaw. He was also a regular in Australian series, and played an ongoing role in Prisoner: Cell Block H as prison officer Dennis Cruikshank, The Yorkshire Pud, in 2 stints in late 1984 and early to mid 1985.

[@stevenmcghee6649]

I thought he looked familiar.

[@gbhxu]

Don't suppose you've got a one off play called Glamour Night? It's about a photographic club having a live model for the night

[@stepchicken3238]

Some women can have a nervous breakdown from not wanting a new house, apparently.

[@PM2022]

Moving into any house you don't want is stifling already.

[@donnyetta]

moving house is very, very stressful, oh my

[@trevorpat-lifeontherun]

She imagined herself in the future looking out of that window as if from a prison cell.

[@imogenimeson664]

Where is that baths? is it still there.

[@EM-lz9kg]

Very poignant question that there used to be lots of swimming baths as I remember going so often and now they’re a bit far from far between and it’s much more problematic It used to be so simple used to pay a pound or something and go for a swim and now it’s joining a health club and paperwork and apps

[@Benbowrainbow]

Putney Leisure centre

[@bimmeroo0906]

Yes, I also agree that he might have had a more thrilling ''romp'' with his mother in law, Laura.

[@jacqui9176]

Very appropriate.

[@voulafisentzidis8830]

That would be the way the story would go had it been made today. Back then more people had integrity.

[@dadodydo]

The husband ought to have married his mother-in-law.

[@richardcummins5465]

Yeah, I thought that!

[@squiresquiffy3728]

Blimey, an English mini cab driver, that dates it!

[@philipcurnow7990]

Ridiculous comment

[@richardcummins5465]

​@@philipcurnow7990But sadly true!

[@morleywhite911]

@@philipcurnow7990how many English taxi drivers have you seen in Pakistani?

[@HHM706]

@@philipcurnow7990what’s ridiculous about it?

[@richard21995]

I didn't quite get the gist of this play?

[@morleywhite911]

Dense

[@EM-lz9kg]

Micheal starts as a stuffed shirt ! , Yet he wakes up to not needing for the sake of needing & be content ironically swimming would help the depression . Which I think this is trying to cover , mid life depression premenopausal blues , the nod Virginia Woolf and her killing herself in water

[@popswhippersnapper9629]

Indeed Michael starts as a bit of a cad, selfish and insensitive to his wife's needs - but while he evolves into a loving husband Liam proves to be just another DOM whose wife dumped him, probably for good reason. Eleanor Bron is still beautiful even today, though a bit older.

[@EM-lz9kg]

Mark mgann as squid 🦑 I thought he looked familiar

[@helenlauer9545]

I am sure it is my indequacy, but this slow, pensive endlessly aimless melancholy and melodramatic angst is quitre tedious by 47 minutes. At 57 or so, the betrayed husband said he felt like he was in an exam and they'd given him the wrong paper and he couldn't ask even one question. that's exactly how I feel as a viewer. What is she on about?

[@stevealdous5905]

A house colder than an iceberg

[@alanhargreaves-thevoiceofr2361]

awesome stuff ....Real Britain ...not the artificial version they are attempting to create now ...!

[@squiresquiffy3728]

Are they suggesting that English is a second language to Scousers?

[@judithjohnson5224]

No. It was a "reading" class not ESL.

[@squiresquiffy3728]

@@judithjohnson5224 ah, righty Ho!

[@joecarr2224]

Tedious. 26:14 26:16

[@abcmyrie]

23:31

[@millwallholdings]

what was so special about 23.31

[@crystalawen]

Pointless ; pampered woman is bored…

[@PM2022]

Why was that White British youngster in that ESL class? And that excited, happy learner just brought down the whole house!

[@judithjohnson5224]

It was "reading" class and the British young man was learning to read!

[@МанушакОнищенко]

Непонятно, если она вся такая возвышенная, почему вышла замуж за него, раздражает

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Far too slow & not much happening, switched off before I fell asleep.

[@philipcurnow7990]

Its slow to represent the tediousness of the protagonists' dull life.

[@martinworld7214]

was a slow burner ....picked up at the end but is the worst of the 4 I've seen at this point .

[@candicebowden4123]

I thought this one was good. Life After Death is a really depressing one.

[@chuckbradley1]

Dull. Dull. Dull.