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form y separately published work icon The Swallow's Nest single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of The Cell : A Play Robert Wales , 1966 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 The Swallow's Nest
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Based on Robert Wales's play The Cell, The Swallow's Nest is set in the convent of an order that cares for girls whom the court and welfare authorities consider redeemable. Although the girls are released into the bond of the nuns rather than being jailed, in appearance the convent is little different from a prison. It too is a place of high walls, shadows, locked doors, and carried keys.

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  • Television play.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       BBC TV ,       1968 .
      Extent: 90 min.p.
      Description: Colour
      Series: form y separately published work icon Theatre 625 BBC TV (publisher), London : BBC TV , 1964-1968 Z1651534 1964 series - publisher film/TV

      Theatre 625 was a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) drama anthology series transmitted on BBC2 between 1964 and 1968. In all, 114 ninety-minute plays were produced. Some of the best-known productions were a 1965 production of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (using Nigel Kneale's 1954 theatrical adaptation); John Hopkins's four-part drama Talking to a Stranger (1966), which told the same story from four different viewpoints; and the 1968 science-fiction allegory The Year of the Sex Olympics. Among the screenplays known to have been written by an Australian or Australian resident is The Swallow's Nest by Robert Wales (1968).

             Number in series: 5.15
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Last amended 4 Dec 2014 15:00:54
Henric Hirsh
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