Playing With Trains [Saturday Drama]

Episodes

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012010032020170302 (BBC7)
20170303 (BBC7)
20140207 (R4)
Parallel to his relationship with industry is his even more tempestuous relationship with his children. Roxanna - whom he expects to become a great engineer - drops out of Cambridge and becomes an art student in attempt to escape her father's grip. Danny, meanwhile, turns into the very thing his father despises - a financial expert, but in so doing recognises the shortcomings of his father's enterprises.

Stephen Poliakoff's drama about an engineer's relationship with his children.

022010032720170303 (BBC7)
20170304 (BBC7)
20140214 (R4)
Parallel to his relationship with industry is his even more tempestuous relationship with his children. Roxanna - whom he expects to become a great engineer - drops out of Cambridge and becomes an art student in an attempt to escape her father's grip. Danny, meanwhile, turns into the very thing his father despises - a financial expert, but in so doing recognises the shortcomings of his father's enterprises.

1986: Roxanna and Danny are in despair over the actions of their father.