I watched this because there wasn't much else on TV at the time and this seemed to be the best of a bad lot. What luck! I may otherwise have missed this beautiful and sensitive piece of television. It's a gem. Beautifully written and with excellent direction. Every acting performance, down to the smallest role, creates a real and recognizable character. The dialog is spot on and coveys so much in so few words. The changing dynamics of the relationship between husband and wife and mother and son were so real and so moving. It captures the mood of the times as described to me by older English people who lived through the war and the air-raids. I was sometimes chuckling and sometimes close to tears. I loved it. Bravo Ms Wood and bravo those who financed it and brought it to us.
Review of Housewife, 49
