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love profile of life in the "30% are strains of Ekie Carlisie.
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Al CALESC a world without trouble. le's an inresistible, but not a simple image. Pennies from Heaven are droplets of beauty, glimpses of the sublime, in a shabby world The image author Dennis Potter's recent South Bank Show interNEW In TIC YONG INSE YOU the that, however desperate you doic are sells you everything's going to be all right Arthur (Bab Hoskets) tells the other salesmen: inside your own But times are hard — people sell themselves. The noblest human experiences are marketLUNTEER whores sell sex; the beggar (Kenneth Colley) sellshymns -divine, if you like. Pennies are the pitlances bestowed on those that bee Campbell) quibbles over half a wave-Jenerns: penny For a sausage dreamy sixpence. his record needles twonence He has to bee 3ss wife Joan (Germa Craven) for MINRY. ADd TOE SEX DENOMINATOR encompassgi The tramp it everyone humanity's common denomi. nator. He's in touch music, but he has to sell it. "Thank you very, very moch" -for the pennies he doesn'i ger.
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potential of all dialectic stemming from kindness. But there'slittle kindness in a world where selling B-the value whereall men are pirips and all tinselled bresentation doesn't detract from the harsh truens were offered. 1f any tragedie ol detes are helle bite realities are the setting, rather than the theme of this magnites subject is the huge subject of all literature — the conflict between dreams and reality; the people to achieve greatness, and their sad tendency toward corruption: the parador of human struggle or, as some would have it, the The final episode of Pennies from Heaven is on BRC-1 at 9.25 sent Tuesday, 11 April, welcomes further contnibutions e liis extremely inventive TV drama destruction?
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