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Love Brewed in the African Pot (1980)
Character: Araba Mansah
Love collides with social class and colonialism when Aba Appiah, born to privilege, falls in love with Joe Quansah, son of a fisherman. Her father, retired civil servant Kofi Appiah, has other plans for her, and seeks to block their marriage. The resulting conflict has complex and unexpected consequences.
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A Kind of Marriage (1976)
Character: Maria
"By local custom, a man may turn from a wife who cannot give him more than one son. But Charles assures Maria that he is a 'modern educated man'. When war drives them back to their village, events force Maria to re-think their marriage." - Radio Times, 1976
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The World in a Room (1970)
Character: Rachel Sampson
Harry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.
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Amy, Wonderful Amy (1974)
Character: Nurse
Barbara lives in a fantasy world of trying to become a great woman pilot like her heroine, the late Amy Johnson.
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Soap Opera in Stockwell (1973)
Character: Iris
A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible. Part of the Black and Blue series of TV plays.
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Just in Time for Christmas (1972)
Character: Sister Viola
43-year-old Janet Nottage tells her husband, pompous academic Leo, that she is having a baby. This throws him into turmoil. Later, on seeing Janet next to a freezing lake, he decides on a decisive course of action.
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When the Bough Breaks (1971)
Character: Nurse
NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.
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Infidelity Took Place (1968)
Character: Mrs. O'Toole
A happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.
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Come the Revolution (1977)
Character: Lavatory Attendant
Comedy about a pub theatre group seen as dramatic revolutionaries by an actress with more than her share of imagination.
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Edna: The Inebriate Woman (1971)
Character: Staff Nurse, in Psychiatric Hospital
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
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The Bushbaby (1969)
Character: N/A
The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds she decides to set the pet free but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native they try to resolve the situation together. Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head
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The Male Animal (1968)
Character: Cleota
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Lost episode of BBC Play of the Month.
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The National Health (1973)
Character: Nurse Lake
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.
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Liar! (1969)
Character: Cleaner
The positronic brain of robot RB-34 (Herbie) has an unforeseen 'extra': he can read human thoughts. So his take on the First Law of Robotics is unorthodox: he tells human beings only what he believes will not hurt their feelings. Can renowned robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin 'fix' RB-34? Or are there areas of her own psyche where she would rather not hear the truth?
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Brief Encounter (1976)
Character: Mrs. Harris
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
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