After a Lifetime

Ken Loachs 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