Dennis Potter's most popular television drama, Pennies from Heaven, 'a play with music, in six parts', was first shown in 1978 on BBC1. Set in the thirties, it starred Bob Hoskins and concerned the amorous and geographical wanderings of a travelling sheet music salesman, who is both fortunate and unfortunate enough to believe in the songs in his suitcase. When it was first shown, the free-flowing movement from fact to fiction and back again, shown by characters suddenly performing to old recordings of thirties hit tunes to illustrate their longings, and then returning again to their humdrum lives, was startling and innovatory.
- ISBN10 0571178219
- ISBN13 9780571178216
- Publish Date 15 April 1996 (first published 1 December 1981)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 August 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 184
- Language English