First Time Out

Delia is credited with sound for the BBC TV series First Time Out produced by Anne Head.

Its tape's catalogue entry is dated April 1970 and the programme was broadcast in three episodes, all credited to Anne Head as director:

• 27 August 1971: "Programme written and performed by The Wherehouse La Mama London.

Society at work on people - the processing and manipulation of a human life."

• 3 September 1971: "Brain by John Abulafia, performed by Incubus Theatre. Five actors present the functions, actions and reactions of a brain. They use mime, song, group movement, dance and a variety of noises. A sixth actor, representing the outside world, involves himself with the brain."
• 10th September 1971: "Woman of the Place by Peter Hulton, based on a Japanese story, performed by Freehold. A woman has lost her man and travels seeking him but finds only echoes of him. She looks back to their past happiness. The play is a study of grief and loss, a woman coming to terms with her memories. The text is a dialogue between the woman and a dramatic chorus, with a commentator who relates her sadness to the universal experience of pain."

Availability

• Broadcast in August-September 1971 on BBC Two.
• In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 7188.