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This was the final script by Alan Plater who died in June 2010 and it was based on his uncle's wartime experiences. There was a credit at the end [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Dedicated to the Memory of Alan Plater 1935-2010.
Away from his desk Plater loved jazz, hence the Beiderbecke references in the three TV series that had a jazz background, and he was a firm Hull City supporter. In total he wrote more than 300 radio, TV plays and films, the most notable being his adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's The Virgin and The Gypsy in 1970.
Alan Plater CBE 15th April 1935-25th June 2010.
Crawford is the lead singer in a band and Greene sang familiar songs from the war in the drama. Some of the funniest bits were when he played his harmonica and led the singing of inappropriate versions of World War I songs in front of the disapproving Major. It is at a Home Guard dance Maddison meets the woman who is to become his second wife widowed Selina, well played by Melanie Hill.
Alan Plater was a prolific writer [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], having penned 18 episodes of the BBC's popular police series Z Cars and 30 episodes of its sequel Softly Softly. He also wrote Fortunes of War (1987) starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, The Beiderbecke Affair (1985) and its sequels The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987) and The Beiderbecke Connection (1988) which starred James Bolam and Barbara Flynn.
The atmosphere of the period was captured very well and the drama was interspersed with factual black and white film footage of old newsreels showing the bombings and the Prime Minister at the time, Sir Winston Churchill.
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The casting of Green and Whately was excellent as they were great foils for each other and brought out the humour as well as the drama. Derek Jacobi was also very good as the Major who has to admit to Crawford in the end that he lied about his military service or as he prefers to put it, he bent the truth.
Robson Green and Kevin Whately [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], working together for the first time, played two shipyard workers, Harry Crawford and Joe Maddison, who volunteer to sign up. Both had seen active service in World War I and were too old to serve in the Second World War. Joe's son and son-in-law had both joined up and he feels useless, and when his wife Polly runs off with a young Naval Officer he feels he has nothing to lose.
When he and his best friend Harry join up they are both emotionally disturbed by their experience in the trenches in the First World War and Harry is particularly cynical about the Major in charge of their training who never really saw action because he worked in a hospital in the previous war.
On Sunday 19th September (Battle of Britain Sunday) the moving story was screened on prime time television and it gave a completely different insight into the Home Guard. British viewers are so used to laughing at the Fred Carno's Army activities carried out by the Home Guard in the popular comedy series Dad's Army but this made-for television drama showed the good work they actually did.

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