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Cathy Come Home
Sandford's screenplay Cathy Come Home details the issue of homelessness and the life of a young woman in 1960s London as she moves from her own home, to council accommodation, and finally emergency accommodation for the homeless before being evicted and her children taken into care.
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Edna
Winner of the Writer's Guild Best Television Play and Critic's Choice Best Television Play
Edna the Inebriate Woman was written when Jeremy Sandford, whose Cathy Come Home had focused public attention on the plight of homeless families, decided to... -
Smiling David
David Oluwale (1930–1969) was a homeless, British Nigerian who drowned in the River Aire in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1969. Smiling David is a dramatic interpretation of the events leading up to his death which included systematic harassment by the police and which eventually l...