Play for Today

Name: Play for Today
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-11-13

2025

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Drama

Revival of the 1970s and 80s series of individual plays, originally shown on the BBC, now freshly-commissioned for Channel 5 and a whole new era of life in Britain.

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