“It is curious that there has been so little comment about how the BBC and Channel 4 have together quietly murdered one of the two forms which may be said to have been distinctively pioneered and championed in this country. The nature documentary survives, glorious as ever. But mention of the single play, in which one writer is given the opportunity to make his or her own fiction at will, seems to evoke the past more powerfully than Green Shield Stamps or Craven A.”