I expect you feel depressed. I’ll give you some tranquillizers. Three of these four times a day; if it gets really bad, two of the little while ones, six of the black … Play for Today: Dog Ends by Richard Harris, doctor to Arthur, BBC 1984
Well, she doesn’t … well, eh doesn’t want me to be myself. She objects. She objects to everything I do. She, she dislikes my friends. She thinks I have drinks. She criticizes me all the time … The Wednesday Play: In Two Minds by David Mercer, director Ken Loach, Kate, BBC 1967
Do you listen to her, Mrs Winter? ibid. researcher
I really am wicked. ibid. Kate to researcher
Anyway, when I came back the door was locked … ibid.
Researcher: Abortion.
Mother: Don’t say that word to me. ibid.
It would have been me that would have been lumbered with it. ibid. mother
When I get better I don’t have those feelings of being somebody else. ibid. Kate
So you asked to go back to the hospital? ibid. researcher
I’ve been a good father, and what have you done? You’ve pushed it all back in my face. Because you’re self-willed. Your mother and me, I mean, she’s a good woman, and I can’t stand to see the effect of what you’re doing, what you do to her – undermining her health. I’m ashamed of you. ibid. father