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Programme announced for late October and November 2023 at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX

Including seasons dedicated to Powell and Pressburger, Sir Horace Ové and Joanna Hogg, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon at IMAX. ....

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Alison Steadman Reflects on Filming British TV's First Lesbian Kiss

Alison Steadman Reflects on Filming British TV's First Lesbian Kiss
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How the 30-minute drama powered British television

Half-hour anthology dramas ruled the airwaves throughout the 60s and 70s, showcasing radical new work and offering a training ground for a who’s who of British screen talent. ....

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Obituary: Myra Frances, actress who kissed another woman in taboo-busting TV moment


Died: March 30, 2021
MYRA Frances, who has died of cancer aged 78, was an actress who became a taboo-busting pioneer when she shared British television’s first romantic kiss between women.
That was in Girl (1974), James Robson’s play for BBC Birmingham’s Second City Firsts series of short standalone dramas by relatively new writers. Frances played Christine Harvey, the seemingly stern army corporal who appears opposite Alison Steadman’s discharged pregnant squaddie, Jackie.
As Jackie prepares to leave, the pair’s illicit tryst is revealed in a serious study of the effects their brief relationship has had on both of them amid the double lives they each lead. As the two women are left alone together, the scene builds towards a bittersweet reckoning, played out to the strains of Dusty Springfield’s hit version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s song, This Girl’s in Love With You. “Top of the gay girls’ hit parade”, as Frances’s character put ....

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Peter Egan shares sad news his wife Myra Frances has died


In a video he shared alongside his post, Peter told his followers that Myra s illness was the reason he hadn t been very active online recently and he added that his social media break would continue.
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I ve been absent from social media quite a lot recently and people are asking why, and indeed so is my wonderful wife of 49 years Myra, who like me has been a very active campaigner for a long time for all of the animals of the world that we care about, Peter began.
I m finding it very difficult to say that my wonderful wife died of cancer in the early hours of Tuesday morning. ....

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