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Dennis Potter At LWT - Volume 2

Dennis Potter At LWT - Volume 2 DVD

Dennis Potter At LWT - Volume 2

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Release Date: 24 September 2007

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Certificate:	12

Cast List:	Ann Bell, Peter Cellier, Anthony Bate, Ray Smith, Deborah Grant, Ian Holm, Cyril Luckham, John Neville, Nikolas Simmonds, John Warner

Director:	Gareth Davies, Christopher Morahan, James MacTaggart

Special Features:	None Listed.

Region:	Region 2

Aspect Ratio:	Aspect Ratio 4:3

Number of Disks:	2

Main Language:	English

Description

Disc One:
Shaggy Dog - Mr Wilkie arrives for an interview for a job at "Rest Awhile", a top flight hotel chain. Naturally nervous about the interview, he is pushed to breaking point by the eccentric management consultant...

Moonlight On The Highway - David Peters visits the psychiatrist to help him with his "wickedness". Clearly a disturbed young man, it becomes apparent that he is fixated on a past case of possible sexual abuse and the music of Al Bowlly. He is prescribed anti-depressants and warned not to mix them with alcohol- a warning he forgets...

Dennis Potter - Man of Television - In this twenty minute extract from a 1978 edition of the long-running and celebrated arts programme The South Bank Show, Dennis Potter is interviews about his life and work.

Disc 2:
Lay Down Your Arms - It is the momentous summer of 1956. Suez and Hungary are in the air, Anne Shelton is top of the pops, and 22920071 National Service Private Hawk, R., is about to start as a Russian-Language clerk in a highly secret War Office department called M13. Finding it hard to fit in he gets around this by inventing personas for himself, dependent upon the company he keeps.

Brimstone and Treacle: Censorship - This twenty minute extract from a 1979 edition of The South Bank Show has an interview with potter about the banning of Brimstone and Treacle by the BBC and television censorship in general. It is also features a scene from the play courtesy of the Open Space Theatre production (starring George Cole, Margery Mason, Richard O'Callaghan, Lynsey Baxter).