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517:(1985) was a comedy about an unsuccessful English screenwriter in Hollywood. While Wood remained active in the theatre, a string of television dramas followed in the 1970s. The first of these was also perhaps the strangest:
546:(1967) was a TV play about racial integration in Bristol which had to be broadcast with a disclaimer that "it is a fantasy and we devoutly hope that no one in Bristol will see it otherwise". Wood had submitted
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English at play on the beach written and narrated by Charles Wood about his family on their annual holiday visit to his parents on the Isle of Wight.
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in Worcestershire where Charles Wood obtained a place at
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The Emergence of Anthony Purdy Esq, Farmerâs Labourer
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The Emergence of Anthony Purdy Esq, Farmerâs Labourer
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