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Frankie não conhece seu pai porque sua mãe, Lizzie, fugiu do homem violento quando Frankie era apenas um bebê. Em vez de dizer a verdade para seu filho surdo, ela inventa uma mentira elaborada dizendo que seu pai é um marinheiro mercante no navio Accra. Ela até escreve cartas para Frankie em nome de seu pai. Mas quando o verdadeiro navio Acra atraca em sua pequena cidade escocesa, Lizzie contrata um estranho para fingir ser o pai de seu filho.
Ellen
Four students working in a factory cause emotional, as well as industrial catastrophe, for when theory and reality meet it is the 'Silly Season'.
Careers advisor
Mature student, divorcee and mother of three, Josie, finds the social pressures in and out of university more demanding than her academic studies.
Telephone Operator
'Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and no doubt it'll an be such an effort that on the seventh day you'll have to rest!'. TV play by Sean McCarthy.
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
Betsie Hawkins
When Alison unexpectedly falls pregnant after a brief encounter with Alex (David Hayman's first TV role) they decide to marry. The joining of two seemingly different families opens into a witty and audacious tale, which caused uproar after its first broadcast in 1972. An early triumph for Peter McDougall, when it was proclaimed the most exciting writing debut since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
