![]() ![]() Most plays in the series weighed in at, on average, around 75 minutes, longer than the normal 60-minute TV drama but shorter than most feature films. At under 50 minutes, "The Land of Green Ginger" is relatively short for a "Play for Today". The company she works for want to transfer her to a job abroad, and Sally is not keen, largely because this would mean longer separations from her family and from her boyfriend Mike, all of whom still live in Hull. A young woman named Sally Brown returns to her home town of Hull from London, where she has been working. Plater was born in the north-east, but his family moved to Hull when he was only three years old, and this play is set in the city. ![]() It has lent its name to at least three works of literature a novel by the East Yorkshire writer Winifred Holtby, a children's story by Noel Langley and this play by Alan Plater, broadcast as part of the BBC's "Play for Today" series. The Land of Green Ginger is a street in the old town of Hull how it acquired that name has long been disputed. ![]()
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