Horace Ové
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Sep 30, 2026
Don LettsGUEST
Yeah, it was a big deal for me and a big deal.
speaker_0HOST
Were you aware of some of the other black directors making stuff at the time, I suppose, like Horace Ove?
Don LettsGUEST
I was aware of Horace, and there was a couple of them, but not many of us.
Don LettsGUEST
But the thing is, Horace and those guys were... a generation above me.
Rod EdmondGUEST
Moving on to stories undertold and emergent, one obvious category here is race, which came late to the party in English cricket fiction and has not been a strong presence.
Rod EdmondGUEST
In fact, I think the most interesting representation of race in the traditional English cricket fiction narrative is in fact a film made by Horace Ove called Playing Away.
Rod EdmondGUEST
1986.
Rod EdmondGUEST
I don't know if you've seen it.
Anika Allen-GrayHOST
The show was spearheaded by a Guyanese-born British playwright, Michael Abinsets, who became the first black British playwright to be commissioned to write a TV drama series for the BBC and be at the creative helm of a British TV show.
Anika Allen-GrayHOST
For the second series, director Horace Ove was brought on board.
Anika Allen-GrayHOST
This established a production unit with a black writer, a black director, the first of its kind in British TV history.
Anika Allen-GrayHOST
Despite these promising possibilities, Empire Road ran for just two seasons.