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"Blue Remembered Hills" is the 14th episode of ninth season of the British
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anthology TV series ''
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Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials '' Pennies from Heaven'' (1978), ''The Singing Detective'' (198 ...
, directed by
Brian Gibson and produced by
Kenith Trodd
Kenith Trodd (born 1936, in Southampton) is a British television producer best known for his professional association with television playwright Dennis Potter.
Early life
The son of a crane driver, Trodd was raised in the Christian fundamentalist ...
.
The play concerns a group of seven-year-olds playing in the
Forest of Dean
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and northwest, Herefordshire to ...
one summer afternoon in 1943. It ends abruptly when the character Donald is burned to death, partly as a result of the other children's actions. Perhaps the most striking feature of the play is that, although the characters are children, they are played by adult actors. Potter first used this device in ''
Stand Up, Nigel Barton'' (1965) and returned to it in ''
Cold Lazarus
''Cold Lazarus'' is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of pancreatic cancer.
It forms the second half of a pair with the television serial ''Karaoke''. The two serials were filmed ...
'' (1996).
The dialogue is written in a Forest of Dean
dialect
The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena:
One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...
, which Potter also uses extensively in other dramas incorporating a Forest of Dean setting, most notably ''
A Beast with Two Backs'' (1968), ''
Pennies from Heaven'' (1978) and ''
The Singing Detective
''The Singing Detective'' is a BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon and directed by Jon Amiel. Its six episodes are "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter" and "Who Done It".
The ser ...
'' (1986).
Cast
The stars of the original production were:
Robin Ellis
Anthony Robin Ellis (born 8 January 1942) is a British actor and cookbook writer best known for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in 29 episodes of the BBC classic series ''Poldark'', adapted from a series of books by the British author Winsto ...
(John),
Michael Elphick
Michael John Elphick (19 September 1946 – 7 September 2002) was an English film and television actor. He played the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series ''Boon'' and Harry Slater in BBC's ''EastEnders''. He was nominated for ...
(Peter),
Colin Welland
Colin Welland (born Colin Edward Williams; 4 July 1934 – 2 November 2015) was an English actor and screenwriter. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Mr Farthing in '' Kes'' (1969) and the Academy Aw ...
(Willie),
John Bird (Raymond),
Helen Mirren (Angela),
Janine Duvitski
Janine Duvitski (born Christine Janine Drzewicki; 28 June 1952) is a British actress, known for her roles in the BBC television sitcom series '' Waiting for God'', ''One Foot in the Grave'' and ''Benidorm''. Duvitski first came to national atte ...
(Audrey),
Colin Jeavons
Colin Abel Jeavons (born 20 October 1929) is a retired British television actor.
Career
Jeavons' earliest television role was as Jules Neraud in an episode of the 1956 anthology series of teleplays ''Nom-de-Plume''. Broadcast live, it is unkno ...
(Donald).
The
screenplay has also been adapted for the
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
. The play is now a standard text for GCSE Drama in Great Britain.
Title
The title comes from the 40th poem in
A.E. Housman's ''
A Shropshire Lad''.
The poem is read by Potter himself at the end of the BBC version of the play.
"Blue remembered hills" is also the title of
Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff (14 December 1920 – 23 July 1992) was an English novelist best known for children's books, especially historical fiction and retellings of myths and legends. Although she was primarily a children's author, some of her novel ...
's autobiography (1984).
References
External links
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British Film Institute - Screen OnlineBlue Remembered Hills 2012 UK TourTV Cream ReviewReview of Blue Remembered Hills Production in Strode Theatre, Street, Somerset, U.K..comBlue Remembered Hills at Brighton Open Air Theatre, July 2017
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