play for today and treacle tv

dennis potter's most controversial work by a country mile,brimstone and treacle was a bbc play for today production that tackled an almost unthinkable subject. a bickering,middle-aged couple with a brain-damaged daughter (pattie) are visited one typically fraught evening by an overbearingly polite young man named martin,who claims to be a friend of pattie's. the mother is th...