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Play for Today: Land of Green Ginger (1973)
A girl returns to Hull with a decision to make
The city of Hull may not seem to be the most romantic of settings, but this Play For Today is a touching story of love that might have been.
Sally Brown returns to her hometown to visit her mam's new home on an anonymous new high-rise outside Hull.Her real motive is to discover the depth of commitment of her boyfriend Mike. Mike is a trawler man with the hope of a captain's ticket, but Sally wants him to get a shore job.
Sally also is upwardly mobile, with the certainty of a promotion to a job abroad.Will she take this, or come back to Hull to settle down.
But more than this, Land Of Green Ginger is a beautiful depiction of the life and times of the people of Hull at an historic point in the history of the east coast of England. Reference is made to the coming Humber bridge, the demolition of the old housing stock and the creation of the tower block.
And with the benefit of hindsight we plead with Mike not to devote himself to the trawler man's life which would,in a few years, be destroyed by the imposition of quotas and regulations.
For a period piece like this, Sally is an extremely strong, determined female character. At the end, we know who has the more promising future.