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RepositoryUniversity Archives and Special Collections Centre
Reference NumberCE/2/8
TitleBethnal Green
DescriptionMaterial in this Sub-Series covers Exton's writing of 'Bethnal Green,' was later retitled into 'A Place to Go,' and chronicles the Flint family as they adapt to life in post-war Bethnal Green amid the bombsites and slums that being turned into. The father is contemplating leaving his work at the docks and his daughter wants a new home with her husband and expected baby. Son Ricky is dissatisfied with his lot and equally eager to get away. Ricky becomes embroiled in the planning of a robbery of the cigarette factory where he works and with a quirky young woman named Catherine. Adapted by a novel by Michael Fisher and consists of one final shooting script.
Date24 Jan 1963
CreatorClive Exton
Individual or organisational biographyFrom his earliest days working on ITV's Armchair Theatre productions to his dramatisations for popular, lavishly produced series such as Agatha Christie's Poirot and Jeeves & Wooster, Clive Exton was a screenwriter who brought intelligence and depth to television drama. (see Saturday, 18 August 2007 Independent Newspaper).
Extent1 file
LevelSeries
Access ConditionsLH/Static shelves/13B-F, 12A-F, 11A
Custodial HistoryThe papers have been in the possession of Mrs Mara Exton, since the death of her husband Clive Exton. The papers are donated to University of the Arts London in March 2010.
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