Hands

Story

Synopsis

Hands was dramatised from one of Sid Chaplin’s early short stories and broadcast in the BBC North East Region as a tribute to Chaplin, who died in January 1986. It features Tim Healy and Robson Green as father and son in a video drama which uses a mixture of studio recording, with stylised sets created by the use of colour separation overlay, location filming, photographs and songs (by Alex Glasgow), dramatising the life of a family in a mining community. Chaplin had worked as a miner and as such much of his writing was about the mining community he grew up in.

Director

Mark Scrimshaw

Writers

Sid Chaplin, Mark Scrimshaw

Language

English

Release date

19 December 1986

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Tim Healy

  Father

• Robson Green

  Son

• Andrina Carroll

  Wife

• Joshua Close

  Miner