Just as such acclaimed directors as Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet, George Roy Hill, Michael Mann and John Frankenheimer cut their directing teeth in television, so too did many of England’s ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. First broadcast in 1966 on the BBC, Cathy Come Home depicts a young family's slide ...

Theatre company Cardboard Citizens have announced a new nationwide tour inspired by Ken Loach's film Cathy Come Home. Following a theatrical staging of the film at the Barbican, the company will take ...

We invited three social care figures to watch Cathy Come Home again and discuss its impact on the UK’s poor in the light of today’s social landscape According to Shelter, 1.6 million children are ...

When Cathy Come Home was first broadcast in 1966, it sent shockwaves through British society. It told the story of a young couple descending into poverty and homelessness after being evicted from ...

The writer Jeremy Sandford, whose 1967 TV play ” Cathy Come Home ” drew attention to homelessness in Britain, has died. He was 72. Mr. Sandford died May 12, his family said. The cause of death was not ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Cardboard Citizens announces a new tour inspired by Cathy Come Home. Fifty years ...

The problem with this is that it's so heavy handed. Cathy is so pathetic, she just passively accepts her fate. It's hard to sympathise with such a paper-thin character...by the end I was glad that ...

1966 was a good year for British television: Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home aired on BBC1. And this 75-minute one-off television play, written by Ken Sandford and produced by Tony Garnett, changed the ...

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