Jeremy Sandford was an English television screenwriter who came to prominence in 1966 with Cathy Come Home, his controversial entry in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand, which was directed by Ken Loach. Edna, the Inebriate Woman was written for The Wednesday Play's successor series Play for Today. He is also the author of the documentary Smiling David, about the death of the Nigerian immigrant David Oluwele.
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The Inebriate Woman
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 study the equally grave problems faced by Britains... Read more
Published: 1976
Pages: 128
Paperback: 9780714525488
ePub: 9780714522104
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 study the equally grave problems faced by Britains thousands of single homeless people.
The author follows Edna on her continuous journey through town and country and shows us at first hand the shortcomings and sheer absurdities of a society whose response to Edna's predicament is insensitive, inappropriate anc expensive. At the time of writing, Edna, threadbare and half-drunk, was one of Britains growing down and out population, a population that has only grown since the 1970s. Sandfords own anger and impatience with our reluctance to help is infectious.
With Cathy Come Home, this script has perhaps done more than any other piece of documentary literature to improve the public attitude towards these often desperate people. The story of Edna is authentic, at times hilariously comic; a frightening personal dossier on what it is like for so many people to live beyond the reach society's rescue services.