The History Man
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The History Man

Sender:BBC Two

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S01E04 - "Gross Moral Turpitude"

Ausgestrahlt am Jan 25, 1981, 10:15 PM

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Beschreibung

The History Man is a BBC four-part drama series based on Malcolm Bradbury's novel of seventies campus life.Antony Sher plays the moustachio'd Howard Kirk, left-wing Marxist, promiscuous womaniser and bully. An ambitious sociology lecturer, he delights in stirring up revolutionary feelings at the University of Watermouth, manipulating students, colleagues and lovers alike to further his career.

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Status
Beendet
Sprache
English
Laufzeit
50 min
Erstausstrahlung
January 4, 1981
Beendet
January 25, 1981
Sendeplan
Sunday um 22:20

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Episoden (1 Staffel · 4 Episoden)

October 2nd 1972

Nixon's America, Heath's England, petrol 36p a gallon. Howard and Barbara Kirk , fashionable Watermouth University's well-known progressive couple, are throwing one of their celebrated parties. Another fresh term -new faces to radicalise, old issues and adversaries to be confronted. History needs some action and Howard has just the scheme for an autumn of disruption.

Jan 4, 1981

50 Min.

October 3rd 1972 (am)

The Kirk seminar - an advanced scholastic encounter with George Carmody , the perfect teaching aid and the only boy in the university with a trouser press. For Howard, a bonus in confronting the liberal establishment. But first there's the party to be scrutinised with Flora, and indeed Annie and Felicity ...

Jan 11, 1981

50 Min.

October 3rd 1972 (pm)

The departmental meeting. A setting of legendary divisiveness for the fruition of Howard's master plan. But with Professor Marvin a reluctant combatant and Howard's varied extra-mural activities under novel surveillance, the inevitability of the plot is no longer totally in the author's hands.

Jan 18, 1981

50 Min.

Gross Moral Turpitude

Howard seems to be about to pay his dues, but in the fight for his academic life, the University is the battlefield. As in any war the choice of survivors - and casualties - is very arbitrary and contingent.

Jan 25, 1981

50 Min.

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