Dennis Potter

...though the Times didn't carry television reviews until well into the 80s, "it was both sexy and artistically credible to be on TV. Dennis Potter was already famous. John Osborne and Tom Stoppard did television work. There were plenty of...

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...something else". Bennett never went in for the angry rejection of the narrowness of his parents that fuelled the work of Dennis Potter, say, or Philip Larkin. He felt himself to be too kind for that. You could see, however, his entire...

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...she said. In working-class homes, the set invaded - and changed for ever - the hitherto sacrosanct parlour. The playwright Dennis Potter, growing up in the Forest of Dean, recalled this giant shift in domestic habits: 'The little screen...

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Theatre preview: Blue Remembered Hills, Various venues in Wales AWARD-WINNING Louche Theatre are staging Dennis Potter's modern classic Blue Remembered Hills. The production opened in Aberystwyth last night and it will also visit...

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...oversimplify the "goodies" and the "baddies" ... the truth is rarely as cut and dried as this.' Marchant, a winner of Bafta's Dennis Potter award for outstanding contribution to TV drama, was also offered advice, such as: 'Tone of voice...

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...his unforgettable film debut in 1980, is oddly in touch with his feminine side. You could see it in his first television drama, Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven in 1978. He did a rather delicate, skippy little dance in that. 'The...

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...The Illustrated Weekly Hudd and The Roy Hudd Show. He received critical acclaim when he played mad organist Harold Atterbow in Dennis Potter's drama Lipstick On Your Collar and more recently was 'discovered' by a new generation when he played...

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...could easily be done by young men five or 10 years their senior. Cast adult actors in the roles, and it would not look like Dennis Potter's famous adult-child play Blue Remembered Hills. It would look exactly the same. When the...

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...was just a mask of humanity over base reality: that, next to the corruption of the day, it was nothing but mere accompaniment. Dennis Potter's TV drama Pennies From Heaven (1978) touches on the same unease, with music offering promises that...

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...for practising his thespian craft. At the height of the Police's fame he made cross-border forays in Quadrophenia (1979) and Dennis Potter's Brimstone & Treacle (1982). In recent years he has been confined to playing himself in the likes of...

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