Trevor Griffiths and 1945 revisited
Sadly, the work of Trevor Griffiths, one of the political playwrights who emerged in the Sixties, is nowadays neglected. The BBC, for whatever reason, seems reluctant to re-broadcast his work. I want to highlight his 1981 TV drama Country . The action focuses on a gathering of the wealthy Carlion family where they discuss who will take over the brewery business that has made them fabulously wealthy. The family patriarch, Sir Frederic Carlion (Leo McKern), is getting old, needs to retire, and favours his son Philip Carlion (James Fox). However, James seems hardly “business material”: he works...