Early Work

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Cathy Come Home (1965) The Wednesday Play

Ken Loach: The two little boys who played Cathy's children were actually Carol White's own children and this gave the performances and the play a particular vitality.

"Shelter was founded one week after the screening of Cathy Come Home in December 1965. The powerful film shocked viewers with its story of the young family trapped in a downward spiral of homelessness and was a significant factor in persuading people to support the newly-formed charity for homeless and badly housed people. Shelter and the film have continued to be linked in the public's mind ever since."

Ben Jackson Director of External Affairs, Shelter

Up the Junction (1965) The Wednesday Play

Ken Loach: This was based on a brilliant novel by Nell Dunn which captured the spirit of Battersea and the people in it. It was shot in four or five days in South London. This was much to the surprise and apparent dismay of some of the BBC hierarchy, who found that they had a film when they had been promised a TV play.

Poor Cow (1967)

Ken Loach: This is the third film that I worked on with Carol White and in it she has two men in her life, played by excellently by John Bindon and Terence Stamp.

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