After a Lifetime

Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.

Top Billed Cast

Neville Smith

Young Billy

Bill Dean

Uncle Sid

Peter Kerrigan

Uncle John

Johnny Gee

Frank

Len Annett

Joe Horrigon