Year of the Sex Olympics

The Year of the Sex Olympics is a BBC television play written by Nigel Kneale in 1968, now widely regarded as predicting the rise of reality television. The play was produced in colour - although only a black and white copy now exists - for BBC2's Theatre 625 strand.

Plot

In a distant future society is divided between 'low-drives' that equate with the laboured classes and 'hi-drives' who control the government and media. The low-drives are controlled by a constant broadcast of pornography that the hi-drives are convinced will pacify them though one hi-drive Nat Mender (Tony Vogel) believes that the media should be used to educate the low-drives. After the accidental death of a protester during the Sex Olympics gets a massive audience response the Co-ordinator Ugo Priest (Leonard Rossiter) decides to commission a new programme. In "The Live Life Show" Nat Mender his partner and their daughter are stranded on a remote Scottish Island while the low-drive audience watches. After a period the low-drives begin to loose interest so the programme makers introduce a psychopath who threatens the family.

Related Topics:
Leonard Rossiter - Psychopath

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