A fight about a gramophone destroys 18 years of marriage in 75 devastating minutes.
"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week to save a marriage that he hasn't looked at in 18 years, and with it all the trappings of a good life in Maida Vale.
Acting
Kemp and Dunham weaponize British restraint.
Writing
Every line lands like a dropped glass.
Direction
Millar traps you in their suffocating Maida Vale prison.
Director
Gavin Millar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for BBC's 'Play for Today'—part of a golden age of British television drama that treated the small screen as legitimate art.
The gramophone that starts it all is never seen; director Gavin Millar understood that domestic warfare is rarely about the object, always about the accumulated resentment.
GB
