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Hello, I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with this. It's been annoying me for weeks now!
I think this programme would have been on in the late 80s, it was definitely a series (mini series I think). It wasn't a children's programme - I got into it because my mum watched it - but it wouldn't have been on late. Possibly Sunday evening tv. It was a period drama, I'm not sure which period exactly but thinking back it reminded me a bit of a Catherine Cookson drama in that it looks like it was set in victorian - edwardian period. (It def wasn't catherine cookson though.) For some reason I keep thinking it might have been set in Wales but then again I don't remember the characters having any regional accents.
The story was basically about a working class woman who had quite a lot of children (seven i think) and they all had different fathers (or mainly different fathers) and I don't think she'd ever been married. There was probably some explanation as to how this had come about but think I was probably too young to understand. She knew who all the fathers were - some of them acknowledged the children, some didn't. One of the father's in particular she still had a friendly relationship with and I remember really clearly that at one point he took her a bucket of pig's blood so she could make black pudding (this stuck in my mind as I never knew black pudding was made from blood!). For some reason they ended up having an argument and she threw the bucket of blood over him.
I don't remember any other details clearly but I think that one of the daughters who was probably early teens was interested in acting and she got really excited when she got the part of Puck in a local production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The children varied in age from teenage to 'pre-school' age. I have no idea which channel it was actually on but I for some reason I always keep thinking of it as an ITV show - think I might have added this detail years later though!
That's all I've got I'm afraid. For some reason I suddenly remembered this programme and would quite like to watch it again. It'll probably be nothing like I remember it but hopefully it'll still be good
I think this programme would have been on in the late 80s, it was definitely a series (mini series I think). It wasn't a children's programme - I got into it because my mum watched it - but it wouldn't have been on late. Possibly Sunday evening tv. It was a period drama, I'm not sure which period exactly but thinking back it reminded me a bit of a Catherine Cookson drama in that it looks like it was set in victorian - edwardian period. (It def wasn't catherine cookson though.) For some reason I keep thinking it might have been set in Wales but then again I don't remember the characters having any regional accents.
The story was basically about a working class woman who had quite a lot of children (seven i think) and they all had different fathers (or mainly different fathers) and I don't think she'd ever been married. There was probably some explanation as to how this had come about but think I was probably too young to understand. She knew who all the fathers were - some of them acknowledged the children, some didn't. One of the father's in particular she still had a friendly relationship with and I remember really clearly that at one point he took her a bucket of pig's blood so she could make black pudding (this stuck in my mind as I never knew black pudding was made from blood!). For some reason they ended up having an argument and she threw the bucket of blood over him.
I don't remember any other details clearly but I think that one of the daughters who was probably early teens was interested in acting and she got really excited when she got the part of Puck in a local production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The children varied in age from teenage to 'pre-school' age. I have no idea which channel it was actually on but I for some reason I always keep thinking of it as an ITV show - think I might have added this detail years later though!
That's all I've got I'm afraid. For some reason I suddenly remembered this programme and would quite like to watch it again. It'll probably be nothing like I remember it but hopefully it'll still be good
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