Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad. Wondering what has happened to her youth and feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley finds herself regularly alone and talking to the wall while preparing an evening meal of egg and chips for her emotionally distant husband. When her best friend offers to pay for a trip-for-two to Greece, she packs her bags, leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen,
Educating Cardiff Educating Cardiff Educating Cardiff is the fourth series of the British documentary television programme "Educating" broadcast on Channel 4. The eight-episode series was broadcast from 25 August 2015 to 13 October 2015. The documentary follows previous installments in the "Educating..." series including the BAFTA Award-winning "Educating Essex" (2011), "Educating Yorkshire" (2013) and "Educating the East End" (2014). Filmed at Willows High School in Cardiff, Wales, it captures every detail of life in a modern school. "Educating Cardiff" follows Head Teacher Joy Ballard and her team of teachers and support staff in their mission to turn the school around, transforming it