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Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
Directed by Brian Gibson
Overview
Blue Remembered Hills is a British television play by Dennis Potter, originally broadcast on January 30, 1979 as part of the BBC’s Play for Today series. The play concerns a group of silly seven-year-olds playing in the Forest of Dean one summer afternoon during 1943. It displays how victimization and stereotypical views occur even in young children, and ends abruptly when the character of “Donald” is burned to death as a result of the other children’s actions. The play, despite seeming very frivolous (bar the final scene) on first reading, is in fact reflecting on the human capability for brutality, especially in children, and is in a similar vein to William Golding’s The Lord of The Flies.
Length 72 minutes