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The BBC IS Tto repeat this wonderful series starting this week on BBC4, they have shown some fantastic gems over last year including THE ROADS TO FREEDOM, SUNSET SONG, HOTEL DU LAC , MOMETI MORI dare we hope for CAKES AND ALE with Michael Hordern and Judy Cornwall and THE BELL with Ian Holm and VILLETTE it is becoming increasingly obvious these still exist and have not been shredded as were told to believe! A bonus is an introduction to the series with Sian Phillips and two of the directors Moira Armstrong and Waris Hussein. Essentially these are six separate plays giving individual movements of key figures . It shows the internal squabbles within the Pankhurst family and how they would drop people who no longer agreed with their viewpoint. It's a fascinating warts and all intelligent series well worth this new viewingfifty years since first broadcast!

I remember this series vividly another one which the BBC made very cheaply and where it's strength lay in the solid screenplay and the wonderful acting of Peter Jeffrey ,Mona Bruce and Judy Parfitt in particular. In many ways like other classic productions of this era.it was liking watching a stage play with very few sets. There was the school classroom, the dormitories and the gardens and that was about it. So often with Hollywood productions the plain heroine is anything but yet with Judy Parfitt it was a lot more believable as indeed was Peter Jeffrey as the irascible Monsieur Paul Emmanuel. Based upon her own experiences as a student in Belgium this is a much more believable a d mature work than Jane Eyre shame it is not better known. So come on BBC you are now showing ROADS TO FREEDOM and shortly your terrific production of SUNSET SONG open your vaults and let us see MAN OF STRAW again with Derek Jacobi, CAKES AND ALE, SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, FATHERS AND SONS, EYELESS IN GAZA and much, much, more.