June Evening

June Evening was originally a radio play broadcast in 1958. It was televised in July 1960 and proved very influential causing a sensation as one of the first 'kitchen sink' TV plays nine months before Coronation Street was first aired. Naughton contended that Granada lifted his idea the story being set around one Lancashire Street with a corner shop. Set in Holdsworth Street Bolton in 1921 we watch the Street's inhabitants argue love and gossip the evening away.8 women 5 men