In 1977, on Play for Today, the BBC screened Jack Rosenthal’s play Bar Mitzvah Boy. It won that year’s BAFTA for best single play. Two years earlier, Play for Today had screened Rosenthal’s The Evacuees, a drama about two Jewish children forced to live with non-Jewish foster parents during the Second World War. It also won a BAFTA, and an international Emmy. But more importantly for me, as a young teenager in London, both of these plays were the first real example of representation of my life, on TV. They were the first time I had seen the British-Jewish experience accurately portrayed
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