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6. Who Done It
The young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mother's death in London. Forty years on, Marlow the hospital patient still dreams about the homecom ...
28-12-2023
BBC 4
5. Pitter Patter
Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
28-12-2023
BBC 4
1. Skin
Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his ...
27-12-2023
BBC 4
4. Clues
Marlow as a child visits London, but is not impressed. A film option on Marlow's novel thickens the plot. His memories, his 30s style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him a ...
27-12-2023
BBC 4
3. Lovely Days
While in hospital with psoriasis, Marlow thinks back to the war when he was a little boy, and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex in the Forest of Dean. His memories, ...
27-12-2023
BBC 4
2. Heat
Marlow faces his personal misery of the talking cure with the psychologist who wants to help him with his psychosomatic psoriasis and has actually read Marlow's novel. Nicola, a ...
27-12-2023
BBC 4