Yet Play for Today would break the mould once again ... BFI Mediatheque – an essential resource for fans and scholars of TV drama alike. 30 of the original 300 plays do not survive, though ...

Hughes’s first play, Platform, a verbal dance between a beatnik and a bourgeois, debuted in 1960, but it was his television series The Harauld Hughes Half Hour Play (1965) that made him a ...