Donald McWhinnie

The Country Wife / Blue Remembered Hills

Renowned actress Helen Mirren stars in these two early productions from the BBC archives. The BAFTA Award-winning Blue Remembered Hills, in which adults are cast as children, sees Mirren portraying one of a group of seven World War II-era kids who play a prank that turns deadly. Then, i In the bawdy The Country Wife, part of the BBC's "Play of the Month" series, Mirren plays a naïve naive newlywed preyed upon by the local playboy.