Edna, the Inebriate Woman
Episode 2 · 1971-10-21
- Drama
Episode overview
Edna, the Inebriate Woman is a British television drama written by Jeremy Sandford which was transmitted by the BBC as part of the Play for Today series on 21 October 1971. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Irene Shubik produced it. The play deals with an elderly woman, Edna, who wanders through life in an alcoholic haze without a home, a job or any money. A rambling, pathetic yet defiant woman, Edna sleeps rough and begs for food and shelter and the drama follows her progress as she moves from hostel to hostel, going to a psychiatric ward and then prison along the way. Jeremy Sandford, who had previously written Cathy Come Home, researched the play by living rough himself for two weeks. A great deal of the dialogue and the incidents in the play come from the book, 'Down and Out in Britain' published by Jeremy Sandford in 1971; although the majority of the speakers in the book are male, Jeremy Sandford puts much of their speech into the mouth of the female character.
90 minutes
Season 2 episodes
1. Traitor1971-10-14
2. Edna, the Inebriate Woman1971-10-21
3. Evelyn1971-10-28
4. O Fat White Woman1971-11-04
5. Thank You Very Much1971-11-11
6. Michael Regan1971-11-18
7. Skin Deep1971-11-25
8. Pal1971-12-02
9. The Pigeon Fancier1971-12-09
10. Home1972-01-06
11. Still Waters1972-01-13
12. Stocker's Copper1972-01-20
13. The House on Highbury Hill1972-01-27
14. In the Beautiful Caribbean1972-02-03
15. Ackerman, Dougall and Harker1972-02-10
16. The Villa Maroc1972-02-17
17. Cows1972-02-24
18. A Time to Keep1972-04-27
19. The Fishing Party1972-06-01
