Nuts in May

With the Morris Minor packed to the gills, Keith and Candice-Marie arrive in Dorset for ten nights of idyllic camping in one of Mike Leigh’s best-loved works. Despite Keith’s meticulous planning and highly detailed itinerary, the pair’s bliss is interrupted when fellow campers will not obey the Countryside Code. First broadcast in 1976 as part of the BBC’s Play for Today strand, Nuts in May is one of Leigh’s lightest works, a caustic send-up of British middle-class attitudes and manners.

With thanks to the BFI National TV Archive.

Showing as part of The Films of Mike Leigh - screening throughout February