Profile of 21-year-old dramatist Shelagh Delaney, whose play - A Taste of Honey - had debuted to acclaim at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop two years previously.
Both of her literary works, including the recent The Lion in Love, were set and greatly influenced by her life to date in Salford. Bittersweetly, she remarks on how on both the attractions and flaws of the city where she was born and bred.
Clip taken from Monitor: Shelagh Delaney's Salford, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Sunday 25 September, 1960.
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29 авг 2024