Production

Ronald Smedley

Known for

Production

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Bank Holiday poster
NR

18-year-old friends Todd and Towzer set off by motorbike to spend a Bank Holiday weekend in Scarborough. Their long hair, cut-off denim jackets, medals, badges and swastikas lead to hostility from everyone they meet, including the police

Bank Holiday

1972

Bank Holiday poster
NR

18-year-old friends Todd and Towzer set off by motorbike to spend a Bank Holiday weekend in Scarborough. Their long hair, cut-off denim jackets, medals, badges and swastikas lead to hostility from everyone they meet, including the police

Bank Holiday

1972

Just Love poster
NR

A drama following the romance between Ed, who has a reputation for treating girls badly, and Jenny, who comes to work in the factory canteen, and how they come to realise that they genuinely care for each other and fall in love.

Just Love

1971

A Taste of Honey poster
NR

Feature-length 1984 BBC adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's classic play.

A Taste of Honey

1984

Mates poster
NR

Three young men who work together in a factory egg each other on to ask out Della, a typist in the office.

Mates

1971

Let There Be Light poster
NR

What was it like to go to school 100 years ago?

Let There Be Light

1970

£60 Single, £100 Return poster
NR

A play by Bill Lyons. Encouraged by his adventurous friend Des, Pete wants to holiday in India. But can he convince his fretful mother, and what does Des' family think anyway?

£60 Single, £100 Return

1971

Simulation Exercise poster
NR

'They're no trouble', says the head-master, 'just give them something simple and undemanding to do - just keep their heads down'. It was better advice then he knew.

Simulation Exercise

1984

Last Bus poster
NR

Late at night a gang of young men refuse to pay their bus fares, and assault the conductor. None of the other passengers or the driver intervene. After the incident everybody involved is interviewed in the studio about why they behaved as they did. Scene’s first play, specially commissioned for the series, was repeated late at night for an adult audience in December 1968, and shown again for schools to mark 25 years of Scene in 1993.

Last Bus

1968

Clean Sweep poster
NR

The death of a factory owner signals a change for all of the staff, none more so than a sheet metal worker called Watson, who is denied a promised promotion and finds his position as the unofficial leader of the sheet metal workers challenged by Gregg, a new apprentice who joins the factory and isn't willing to follow the accepted order.

Clean Sweep

1971

The Long and the Short and the Tall poster
NR

Psychological drama about a British patrol in the Burmese jungle who fall out among themselves.

The Long and the Short and the Tall

1979

The Ballad of Ben Bagot poster
NR

Ben Bagot is 17; bright, charming and attractive, but he has difficulty setting his sights on reality and always makes the wrong decisions for himself and others. Faced with a pregnant girlfriend, he 'chucks' his job in a shoe shop without any future plans.

The Ballad of Ben Bagot

1973