The hard-working nurses of St Angela's Hospital are back, in the second series of Paula Milne's ground-breaking medical drama. After the huge success of the first series, the student nurses return to face a new set of challenges, both in their working hospital lives and at home. The show continues to tackle the real-life issues that face the medical profession, and is not afraid to deal with the hard-hitting aspects of hospital care or face up to controversial personal issues. Angels is criti.
Set in Brighton in 1951, Wish You Were Here contrasts an England of post-war conformity with the free-spirited nature of a girl, Lynda, on the verge of womanhood, played by the then 17-year-old Emily Lloyd, giving one of the great screen debuts. Filled with youthful energy, good-natured yet delighting in shocking the prudish world around her, Lynda is innocently flirtatious and eager to discover sex. She can't quite understand why everyone disapproves so much, and the film expertly balances uproarious comedy with drama in what is essentially a complex character study. The second, darker half has shades of Lolita, with the excellent Tom Bell in the older man role, while Lynda herself in some ways anticipates Laura Dern's Rambling Rose (1991). Director David Leland also wrote the Brighton thriller, Mona Lisa (1986), and Personal Services (1987) based on the true story of the madam, Cynthia Payne. It is on Payne's own early memories, as told to Leland, that the fictional Wish You Were Here is partly based, while Leland went on to further explore female sexual awakening in The Land Girls (1997), again exploring female sexual awakening --Gary S. Dalkin
Created by Paula Milne, Angels chronicled the personal and professional lives of a group of student nurses, and controversially, tackled issues such as contraception, alcoholism and promiscuity as part of the nurses lives. Grittily authentic, each actress taking part was required to work on a real hospital ward to gain experience and thus contribute to the realism of the production. With its winning combination of the soap opera-like personal lives of the young nurses and the often starkly.
Henry Willows (John Thaw) is a middle-aged man in middle-management divorced from his wife for seven years and perfectly happy with the arrangement. Apart from his prudish and pernickety daily cleaner Enid (Elizabeth Bennett) he's alone and revelling in his solitude... However Henry's serenity is shattered when out of the blue his eldest child Matthew (Reece Dinsdale) arrives on his doorstep. It seems that Matthew is disenchanted with life at home because of his mum's new boyfriend. He wants to stay with his dad - for good. The truth of the matter is that he has been thrown out by his mum after she realised that Willows Jr. has too much in common with Willows Sr.! Episodes Comprise: 1. Plastic Dreamworld 2. Open House 3. Acting Out 4. The Test 5. Protest 6. Any Questions? 7. Julie
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