A quartet of Saturday night plays following the life of indomitable working-class Cockney woman Rosie Carr from the Edwardian era to 1960.
7/4/1964
Rosie Carr, an 18-year-old orphan, works as a lowly tavern barmaid in the spring of 1907 and is courted by street-trader Tommo.
7/11/1964
Now in her 30s and married to Tommo, Rosie struggles to keep their London slum home together and raise their three kids.
7/18/1964
On the horizon of the Second World War, 50something Rosie works as a cleaner at Harley and Coping’s machine tool plant, with Tommo working only occasionally, and her daughter Millie about to marry an aspiring mechanic and spare-time soldier.
7/25/1964
A widow in her 60s, Rosie struggles to come to terms with life in the strange Welfare State of 1960 and deciding whether or not to live with her children.
