Blue Remembered Hills

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Blue Remembered Hills is a 1979 British television play by Dennis Potter that portrays a group of children in wartime England, famously acted by adult performers.

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Blue Remembered Hills canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British television drama
television film
television play
basedOn short story by Dennis Potter
broadcastBy BBC NERFINISHED
castMember Colin Jeavons NERFINISHED
Colin Welland NERFINISHED
Helen Mirren NERFINISHED
Janine Duvitski NERFINISHED
John Bird NERFINISHED
Michael Elphick NERFINISHED
Robin Ellis NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Dennis Potter NERFINISHED
depicts children in wartime England
director Brian Gibson NERFINISHED
distributionFormat television broadcast
firstBroadcastDate 1979-01-30
genre drama
war drama
hasAdaptation stage adaptation
hasSubject World War II home front in Britain NERFINISHED
working-class childhood
isPartOf BBC television plays of the 1970s
language English
locationOfFilming Forest of Dean NERFINISHED
medium television
notableFeature adult actors playing child characters
originalBroadcastFormat colour
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork BBC1 NERFINISHED
partOfSeries Play for Today NERFINISHED
producer Irene Shubik NERFINISHED
productionCompany BBC
releaseYear 1979
runtimeMinutes 72
screenplayBy Dennis Potter NERFINISHED
settingPlace rural England
settingTime World War II NERFINISHED
theme childhood cruelty
loss of innocence
memory
violence
titleOrigin line from poem A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
writer Dennis Potter NERFINISHED

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Colin Welland notableWork Blue Remembered Hills
Dennis Potter notableWork Blue Remembered Hills
Kenith Trodd notableWork Blue Remembered Hills