Up The Junction: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)

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For many viewers, it was too stark a reality for primetime television, and this was echoed the following day as some critics tore into the BBC production calling it "depraved and insane.” Peter Dundas - Sunday Mail (Glasgow) 7 November 1965 wrote:

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