Cathy Come Home

By Stephen Lacey,

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?Cathy Come Home is one of the most influential and highly-regarded UK television dramas. First screened in 1966, it was a devastating indictment of government policy towards homelessness, and a powerful defence of the homeless. More than forty years on, it is still cited as one of the most important…

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Can television change the world? In a word, yes.

This compelling story reveals how a young little-known director called Kenneth Loach fought against the odds to produce a seismic shifting piece of television. Part documentary, part drama learn how a captivating story about a woman called Cathy losing custody of her children came to change  British laws on homelessness.

Television can change the world and the fact Bloomsbury now only produces these delightful glossy page books exclusively on films rather than television, is nothing short of a disgrace.

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