Friday 9 September 2016
489 Somewhere More Central
First viewed : 19 May 1981
I assumed at the time that this little half hour play in a graveyard slot on a Tuesday evening was a regional TV production but no it was nationally networked.
This touching drama was written by Beryl Bainbridge and concerns a gauche young girl Olive ( Caroline Embling ) attending her grandmother's funeral. Flashbacks show the extrovert old lady was a much needed family ally and that Olive will miss her in a much more meaningful way than the rest of the family. The last moments had Olive lingering alone by the graveside and seeing her grandma helped out of the hole by a male admirer all dressed up for a night on the town.
Embling had recently been in Tess and the following year had the titular role in a mini-series called Claire which I don't remember at all. She dropped out of view in the mid-eighties.
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