A Beast With Two Backs
8th episode of the 12th season of The Wednesday Play / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A Beast With Two Backs" is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 on 20 November 1968[1] as part of The Wednesday Play strand.
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"A Beast With Two Backs" | |
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Episode no. | Season 12 Episode 8 |
Directed by | Lionel Harris |
Written by | Dennis Potter |
Produced by | Patrick Barr Graeme MacDonald |
Original air date | 20 November 1968 (1968-11-20) |
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The play is a fictional account of an event that happened in the Forest of Dean in the 1890s when four Frenchmen came over the border from Gloucester with dancing bears, who were subsequently killed by miners coming off the late shift in retaliation for an unrelated attack on a young local girl.