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This programme is a play written by Alan Plater about risks involved in personal relationships. The two characters involved are middle-aged men, one of whom, a life peer, played by Richard Pasco, h...as been invited as a guest speaker to a banquet for five hundred. The other character, played by Nicholas Selby, is the host. Both had been school friends and the action of the play takes place in an ante-room during the half-hour before the other guests arrive. The play is about two people locked into a claustrophobic situation from which there is no absolute escape. There is the possibility of physical escape, either of them can get up and say "I've had enough, I'm going home", but emotionally they are bound together. It is about two people who were at school together and who meet again many years later and the kind of tensions and problems and joys that result from that. The sub-plot has to do with giving one's word as one's bond and with written contracts. The programme links with a unit about legal risk, a unit about interpersonal risk and a unit about existential risk.
This programme is a play written by Alan Plater about risks involved in personal relationships. The two characters involved are middle-aged men, one of whom, a life peer, played by Richard Pasco, h...as been invited as a guest speaker to a banquet for five hundred. The other character, played by Nicholas Selby, is the host. Both had been school friends and the action of the play takes place in an ante-room during the half-hour before the other guests arrive. The play is about two people locked into a claustrophobic situation from which there is no absolute escape. There is the possibility of physical escape, either of them can get up and say "I've had enough, I'm going home", but emotionally they are bound together. It is about two people who were at school together and who meet again many years later and the kind of tensions and problems and joys that result from that. The sub-plot has to do with giving one's word as one's bond and with written contracts. The programme links with a unit about legal risk, a unit about interpersonal risk and a unit about existential risk.
| Module code and title: | U201, Risk |
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| Item code: | U201; 08 |
| Recording date: | 05-08-1979 |
| Published: | 1979 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Richard Argent |
| Contributors: | Jack Dowie; Richard Pasco; Alan Plater; Nicholas Selby |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Interpersonal relations; Legal risk; Written contracts |
| Production number: | FOUD016B |
| Videofinder number: | 1317 |
| Available to public: | no |
