I've just visited a 'calculation' site to find out what I paid for a VHS recorder back in 1982. Well, I remember it well as I was due our first child that year and there was a few changes we wished to make to the family home. My husband wanted a VHS video recorder and I wished for a Sunbed of all things! A sunbed (with both upper and lower light tubes) was roughly £1,000 ( that's £4,350.00) in today's money!)and a video recorder was roughly £400, (that's roughly £1,740.00). The VHS recorder won hands down. (I did get the sunbed for my Christmas!) The reason for mentioning the costs of 1982, when I think this show was aired, many homes were not in a position to buy a device that was so costly. Therefore, many programmes were viewed once and once only. It's such a blessing to sit down and watch all of these masterpieces from yester-year that have been saved. I certainly didn't record them, I could hardly do that without getting the recording times right as it was seriously complicated! I have enjoyed this particular programme as I've an interest in the second World War and how things were on the Home Front. Charles Dance is also a favourite actor of mine and he plays this role beautifully. Many thanks.
Wonderfully tense drama. It’s intriguing to know whether this was based on actual memoirs of what women suffered during the war. We normally see the home guard through the lens of “Dad’s Army” but we get very little about what actually happened to people as a result of the country being at war. This was an unusual and engaging piece because it does explore the struggles of women at war with misogyny. The corrosive effects of class, privilege and prejudice are still used to limit the conversations we should be having.
Tha play's title is " .... Women" not " ....Woman". S uvh a mistake does a disservice to the author. The true ugliness of men and war. In my humble opinion.
@@lorihogue5015 Don't be - be embarrassed if you must for the OP who was rude to the UA-camr then proceeded to make a bigger blunder himself - pot, meet kettle! It's called pointing out the speck in your brother's eye when you have a plank in your own!
These shotgun toting arrogant farmers condensending, disrespectful & abusive toward women are stereotyped very well. 😡 And, this mysterious 'Captain' is a disgrace to manhood !! In the very next bed room, an abusive husband violates his sacred marriage covenant, violently attacking his wife, and this cowardly captain simply returns to his bed !! 😡 Doesn't want to get involved !! Damn this coward ! Wow! What a dysfunctional England portrayed in this video. VERY DEPRESSING 😔 I could NOT finish watching this crazy & very strange video.
For once, I’m glad someone referred to “England”, isolating it from the rest of our country. In other words, Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland are NOT dysfunctional. Thank you for that. (Apart from that, I agree with your accurate and articulate comment).
I cannot fully agree. Today's mantra is that "the poor little innocent helpless women need to be protected by a big brave man". This violates everything that we have spent generations trying to achieve. I am sure that if I tried to violently attack my wife she would fight back and I wouldn't want to repeat the experiment. That is the difference between a liberated woman and a feminist.
@@sylviaroberts8103 Errrm...this is a play depicting the 1940's. So we are talking 'were' not 'are'. I am sure that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were just as 'dysfunctional' in those days.
There is nothing more than getting away from American psychosis than watching a 40's English film,
I've just visited a 'calculation' site to find out what I paid for a VHS recorder back in 1982. Well, I remember it well as I was due our first child that year and there was a few changes we wished to make to the family home. My husband wanted a VHS video recorder and I wished for a Sunbed of all things! A sunbed (with both upper and lower light tubes) was roughly £1,000 ( that's £4,350.00) in today's money!)and a video recorder was roughly £400, (that's roughly £1,740.00). The VHS recorder won hands down. (I did get the sunbed for my Christmas!)
The reason for mentioning the costs of 1982, when I think this show was aired, many homes were not in a position to buy a device that was so costly. Therefore, many programmes were viewed once and once only. It's such a blessing to sit down and watch all of these masterpieces from yester-year that have been saved. I certainly didn't record them, I could hardly do that without getting the recording times right as it was seriously complicated!
I have enjoyed this particular programme as I've an interest in the second World War and how things were on the Home Front. Charles Dance is also a favourite actor of mine and he plays this role beautifully. Many thanks.
Wonderfully tense drama. It’s intriguing to know whether this was based on actual memoirs of what women suffered during the war. We normally see the home guard through the lens of “Dad’s Army” but we get very little about what actually happened to people as a result of the country being at war. This was an unusual and engaging piece because it does explore the struggles of women at war with misogyny. The corrosive effects of class, privilege and prejudice are still used to limit the conversations we should be having.
Absolutely @Christopher Ward you described it perfectly.
So well acted. A bygone age of understated atmospheric drama.
That bit at the end, when the eye of the Home Guard man catches the light from the car's headlight - genius.
The evil that the brutally strong can do is as nothing to that perpetrated by the emotionally weak.
This is my kind of movie, thanks
I enjoy anything Charles Dance and Lindsay Duncan play in.
Just discovered your channel. Fantastic! Thank you. Subscribed.
First shown 1984 on bbc1 then.
Wow
The enemy is always your government
Now more than ever.
they are satanists
A good subjective play, war's, all ways, product peculiar bedfellows, even now, people that should not be abusing their office.!
Not exactly a play but a very well put together drama, nonetheless.
This was more about the war of the sexes at its most extreme rather than the actual war itself.
Sadly, sexual violence in not an unusual part of war.
Does anyone know if "Rainy Day" really was military slang for internal extremists or terrorists?
Tha play's title is " ....
Women" not " ....Woman". S uvh a mistake does a disservice to the author.
The true ugliness of men and war.
In my humble opinion.
The pronunciation in the intro is "women"
What does S uvh mean exactly?🙄🤦
@@lorihogue5015 We do indeed Lori - but some just sit up and beg to be pointed out!😉
@@lorihogue5015 Don't be - be embarrassed if you must for the OP who was rude to the UA-camr then proceeded to make a bigger blunder himself - pot, meet kettle! It's called pointing out the speck in your brother's eye when you have a plank in your own!
@@lorihogue5015 But at least you're not arrogant or presumptuous - so that's good! Pot...kettle ...black...🙄
Disgusting...I wouldn't put it past the British Government
Too perverse for my liking
These shotgun toting arrogant farmers condensending, disrespectful & abusive toward women are stereotyped very well. 😡
And, this mysterious 'Captain' is a disgrace to manhood !! In the very next bed room, an abusive husband violates his sacred marriage covenant, violently attacking his wife, and this cowardly captain simply returns to his bed !! 😡 Doesn't want to get involved !! Damn this coward !
Wow! What a dysfunctional England portrayed in this video.
VERY DEPRESSING 😔
I could NOT finish watching this crazy & very strange video.
For once, I’m glad someone referred to “England”, isolating it from the rest of our country. In other words, Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland are NOT dysfunctional. Thank you for that. (Apart from that, I agree with your accurate and articulate comment).
I cannot fully agree. Today's mantra is that "the poor little innocent helpless women need to be protected by a big brave man". This violates everything that we have spent generations trying to achieve. I am sure that if I tried to violently attack my wife she would fight back and I wouldn't want to repeat the experiment. That is the difference between a liberated woman and a feminist.
@@sylviaroberts8103
Errrm...this is a play depicting the 1940's. So we are talking 'were' not 'are'.
I am sure that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were just as 'dysfunctional' in those days.
What is the date if this play? Is it the 70s?
This one is from the final year : 1983 to 1984