august11

An obituary appears in the Guardian about a week after she dies. It’s been written by one of the twins. Patricia Heal née Hardiman 20 September 1932–11 August 2018. She’d once been called Patricia Hardiman. He had no idea. They didn’t think to call her Paddy, the name she used in the credits, and they listed only the two most well-known of the seventeen productions they’d made together: Sea of Troubles (1971) and Andy Hoffnung (1972), two critically well-received and influential early experimental dramas shown in the BBC Play for Today TV slot; Sea of Troubles caught the first voicings of what would become the Northern Irish peace movement, and Andy Hoffnung was one of the earliest UK TV drama productions to take the first steps towards articulating what had happened to people three decades earlier in the Holocaust.

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