Play of the Month Play of the Month Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted regularly from October 1965 to May 1979, before returning for the summer seasons of 1982 and 1983. The producer most associated with the "Play of the Month" series was Cedric Messina. Some of the 120 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked
Palace of the Babies Palace of the Babies "Palace of the Babies" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium". It was first published in 1916 and is therefore in the public domain. Bates takes this poem to signify that the author of "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" was not altogether "the village atheist". The palace is a church, inhabited by believers for whom the walker has slight regard. They are immature if innocent "babies" nourished on dreams. But disbelief brings loss, as the last two stanzas imply. Night for the moonlight walker brings the harsh torment of crows' wings, not