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Play for Today Land of Green Ginger (1970–1984) Online

Play for Today Land of Green Ginger (1970–1984) Online
1970–1984 Gwen Taylor John Flanagan Jean Heywood Brian Parker
Original Title :
Land of Green Ginger
Genre :
TV Episode / Comedy / Drama
Year :
1970–1984
Directror :
Brian Parker
Cast :
Gwen Taylor,John Flanagan,Jean Heywood
Writer :
Alan Plater
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
50min
Rating :
8.0/10

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Play for Today Land of Green Ginger (1970–1984) Online

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
Episode complete credited cast:
Gwen Taylor Gwen Taylor - Sally Brown
John Flanagan John Flanagan - Mike Thurlow
Jean Heywood Jean Heywood - Mrs. Brown
Michael Elwyn Michael Elwyn - Reynolds
Ivy Cawood Ivy Cawood - Mrs. Thurlow
Clive Hunter Clive Hunter - Taxi Driver
Ted Denyer Ted Denyer - Uncle Jack

Despite its fairy-tale-like name, there really is a street in Hull called Land of Green Ginger.

The title song, sung by Hull folk group The Watersons, was "The North-Country Maid".


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The city of Hull may not seem to be the most romantic of settings, but this Play For Today is a touching story of love that might have been.

Sally Brown returns to her hometown to visit her mam's new home on an anonymous new high-rise outside Hull.Her real motive is to discover the depth of commitment of her boyfriend Mike. Mike is a trawler man with the hope of a captain's ticket, but Sally wants him to get a shore job.

Sally also is upwardly mobile, with the certainty of a promotion to a job abroad.Will she take this, or come back to Hull to settle down.

But more than this, Land Of Green Ginger is a beautiful depiction of the life and times of the people of Hull at an historic point in the history of the east coast of England. Reference is made to the coming Humber bridge, the demolition of the old housing stock and the creation of the tower block.

And with the benefit of hindsight we plead with Mike not to devote himself to the trawler man's life which would,in a few years, be destroyed by the imposition of quotas and regulations.

For a period piece like this, Sally is an extremely strong, determined female character. At the end, we know who has the more promising future.