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Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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StatusEnded
Original NamePlay for Today
First Air DateOctober 15, 1970
Last Air DateFebruary 5, 1985
Seasons14
Episodes314
Episode Runtime1h 15min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production Countries
Production Companies
NetworksBBC One
S14E21

Brigadista

When best-selling author James Fuller Hayes comes to Glasgow to publicise his personal account of the Spanish Civil War, a surprise reunion with two of his old comrades from the Int Brigade reveals contradictory & devastating information.

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