Celebrate 40 years of 'Prisoner' at National Film and Sound Archive

By Megan Doherty
February 23 2019 - 12:00am

It seems only yesterday that Bea Smith was putting someone's hand in the ironing press, Lizzie Birdsworth was dragging on a ciggie while complaining about the latest  "rotten, stinkin' mongrel'' and Vera "Vinegar Tits'' Bennett was somewhere applying a tad more starch than necessary to her immaculate uniform.

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