"We wanted to go out with a camera on somebody's shoulder, into the real world, as a political act as much as an aesthetic act, and we were forbidden to do this by BBC film studios."

  - Tony Garnett, story editor, The Wednesday Play

It was common practice in the 1960s to shoot all television programmes in a studio - in 1963 BBC Television Centre, with its huge, well-equipped studios was built with just this purpose in mind. But it was exactly the limitations of studio-based drama that the makers of 'Up the Junction' wanted to abandon, in favour of something much more raw, alive and immediate.

This film looks at the innovative techniques used on the play, its influences, and the lengths to which the team were prepared to go to achieve their aesthetic aim.

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