Penda’s Fen first published by Little White Lies as the tenth instalment in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “Father, do you think dreams come true?” asks Stephen (Spencer Banks) in Penda’s Fen, David Rudkin’s 1974 teleplay for BBC1 directed by Alan Clarke. “Don’t come true. They are true,” replies Stephen’s father, Reverend Franklin (John Atkinson). “Your dreams…
