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Play for Today

2025- 2025

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Revival of the 1970s and 80s series of individual plays, originally shown on the BBC, now freshly-commissioned for Channel 5 and a whole new era of life in Britain.

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Created by: Simon Warne
Lydia Marchant
Showrunner: Allan Niblo
Nathalie Peter-Contesse
Produced by: Michelle Antoniades

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