Mercer Plays: 2
Mercer, David / Laing, Stuart
The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writersFlint premiered just before the 1970 General Election which was to replace the Labour Government of Harold Wilson. It is driven by the figure of Ossian Flint, a seventy-year old swinging vicar who believes in "crossing lines not drawing them" and espouses the romanticised Communism of Lenin and Guevara, In the BBC play The Bankrupt, Ellis Cripper, a woman aged fifty ha...