A Sudden Wrench

In an interview with Archive on Four, Paula Milne explained the intention behind the play: "It started like this: I was in a supermarket and I was queuing up with all the other women and we all looked so tired. I wanted to reach them, but I didn't want to depict women as victims. I wanted to depict an ordinary woman who picked herself up and did something and she just had this simple task which was to put in her own central heating which turned into a kind of marathon epic. I wanted it to be truthful and intelligent, but I wanted it to be warm and quite funny".

Features A Question of Sport (1970)