Martin Wall & Richard Clay “Mired in Penda’s Fen”

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of the celebrated Play for Today, written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke, local writers Martin Wall and Richard Bruce Clay examine the lingering psychic legacy of ‘Penda’s Fen’, a drama set in the liminal Worcestershire countryside, on the local and national artistic terrain.

The legacy of the play will be discussed, together with its prescient foreshadowing of an English landscape and society in transition. What is it about this otherworldly drama that still enthralls, disturbs and provokes us after half a century? Join us for an afternoon of conversation, nostalgia and celebration of one of the greatest exemplars of the ‘Golden Age of Television Drama’.

Music by Green Knight.