form y separately published work icon The Long Summer single work   film/TV   historical fiction  
Is part of The Exiles Lynn Foster , 1959 series - author film/TV (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1959... 1959 The Long Summer
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'The Long Summer [...] succeeded to some extent in avoiding the anxiety to impart information on all conceivable subjects connected with Australian life which marred the first episode, though some sizable chunks of constitutional history were conveyed during the beginning in rather awkward exchanges designed, ostensibly, to put the son newly returned from Cambridge in touch with local affairs or explain to the farmers what was going on in the centres of government. On the whole, however, education had given place to the exploration of personal tensions between members of the Selwood [sic] family: two brothers in love with the same girl, who happens to be the wife of one of them; a sister taking up with the local bad lot out of boredom, and so on.'

Source:

'The Long Summer', The Times, 2 February 1959, p.12.

Notes

  • Television play.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ,
      1959 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon BBC Sunday Night Theatre United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1950-1959 6432525 1950 series - publisher film/TV

      Anthology drama series made for the BBC between 1950 and 1959.

      The episodes suffered badly during the BBC's purge of its archives in the 1970s, and little of the original series remains.

      In addition, for the first three years (March 1950 - February 1953), the show was aired live, and so no recordings from those years were ever made.

      Number in series: 10.05
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