As we start to read and discuss Blue Remembered Hills, it seems like a good time for you to do some background reading on Dennis Potter. You can read about his life and works here: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/451441/ . You can also view clips from his other famous works on Youtube, including this one from Pennies From Heaven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k089jzXgmpw . Remember that we said that Blue Remembered Hills is naturalistic in style (the exception being the adult actors playing the children) - if you watch the clip above you will see an example of drama which definitely isn't naturalistic in style.
The title of our drama is taken from a poem by AE Housman called A Shropshire Lad. The part of Housman's poem that our title comes from is:
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
What is 'yon far country'? What do you think Housman is suggesting in these lines? Based on what we have read and discussed about Scene 1, what is the connection between the lines above and BRH?
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