\n Famous director Mike Leigh chose Dorset as the location for his 1975 episode for the BBC’s Play For Today, Nuts in May.\n<\/p>\n
\n Filmed mostly\u00a0outside, comedy Nuts in May stars Alison Steadman (who was then married to Mike Leigh) and Roger Sloman.\n<\/p>\n
\n The satirical play is about a middle-class couple who go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.\n<\/p>\n
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\n Nuts in May\u00a0was ranked 49th in the British Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. It is highly regarded and often quoted, and is said to have achieved cult status.\n<\/p>\n
\n It remains a popular episode of Play for Today and it’s worth watching just to see our spectacular Dorset scenery.\n<\/p>\n
\n The film is set in Purbeck and the characters visit a number of significant points of interest including Corfe Castle, Stair Hole, Kimmeridge, Lulworth Cove and the Jurassic Coast.\n<\/p>\n
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\n The campsite used for filming was Corfe Castle campsite, just outside Corfe Castle, which is still used as a campsite today. The quarry visited is Keats Quarry in Acton.\n<\/p>\n
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\n The location was chosen at the suggestion of the producer David Rose, who came from Purbeck: “I told Mike Leigh\u00a0about the quarries in the district and asked him to film everything out of doors, under the skies; he reneged only slightly on this condition \u2013 there is one sequence of about one minute twenty seconds, in the Greyhound pub near Corfe Castle, and one short scene in a toilet.\n<\/p>\n
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