Up The Junction: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)

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Loach also commented that the use of documentary elements reflected the programme's scheduling. The Wednesday Play appeared immediately after the evening news and, he said, "we were very anxious for our plays not to be considered dramas but as continuations of the news." Like Dunn's source novel - based on conversations she overheard among young women in Clapham - the dramatisation is fragmented, containing snippets of other people's stories as well as those of the three main characters, all adding to the impression of authenticity. The film is set in London in the 1960s and it begins with wealthy young heiress Polly Dean leaving a large house in privileged Chelsea in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. The Rolls-Royce then moves across the Thames near Battersea Power Station, where Polly gets out of the car and walks away alone with the opening credits following. She moves to a working-class community in Battersea, where she takes a job in Macrindles confectionery factory in an attempt to distance herself from her moneyed upbringing and make her own living. On the factory floor everyone is singing and all are friendly, but perhaps somewhat unhygienic – smoking as they work on the sweets. The other girls mainly discuss men and sex. She meets two working-class sisters, Sylvie and Rube. She is asked to join the two sisters and a few other girls in the factory in the pub, The Pavilion. They get the local boys to buy them drinks. She declines a lift home on a motorbike. Some are heading "up the junction". But Polly walks home.Squeeze is a band from London, and we know that music videos were trendy in Europe prior to catching on in the United States. As such, this song does have its own video, which was actually filmed in a house where John Lennon (1940-1980) used to live. And it has been noted that said clip features Michelle Collins, prior to her embarking on a prolific (most notably soap opera based) acting career.

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Dignified, the three of us squeeze between tables and sit ourselves, knees tight together, daintily on the chairs.

The combination of Loach’s socialist politics and Dunn’s spirited tale of a London girl’s life, love and young motherhood make Poor Cow a riveting film to watch The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London. Show full synopsis Gwyneth Paltrow joins ex Chris Martin, Dakota Johnson and children Apple and Moses on a helicopter after Thanksgiving partyNell Dunn’s scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, have few parallels in contemporary writing. The exuberant, uninhibited, disparate world she found in the tired old streets and under the railway arches is recaptured in these closely linked sketches; and the result is pure alchemy. I used to walk every day in Richmond Park and say ‘Hi’ to people. One day a woman was in floods of tears. She said she had shared an office for 30 years with a woman who had just retired.