Play for Today — Season 1, Episode 20: Orkney

Episode synopsis

A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present

About 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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Long Distance Piano Player
• E2The Right Prospectus
• E3The Lie
• E4Angels Are So Few
• E5The Write-Off
• E6I Can't See My Little Willie
• E7A Distant Thunder
• E8Hearts and Flowers
• E9Robin Redbreast
• E10The Hallelujah Handshake
• E11Alma Mater
• E12Circle Line