schoolgirl starts a relationship with a black sailor and gets pregnant. After the sailor leaves on his ship, Jo moves in with a homosexual acquaintance who assumes the role of surrogate father. A Taste of Honey raises the issues of class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Later, as many of these writers and directors diversified, kitchen sink realism was taken up by television directors who produced television plays. The single play was then a staple of the medium, and Armchair Theatre (1956–68), produced by the ITV contractor ABC, The Wednesday Play (1964–70) and Play for Today (1970–84), both BBC series, contained many works of this kind. Jeremy Sandford's television play Cathy Come Home (1966, directed by Ken Loach for The Wednesday Play slot) for instance, addressed the issue of homelessness. Kitchen sink realism was used in the novels of Stan Barstow, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe and others. Since the 1960s The influence of kitchen sink realism has continued in the work of many more recent British directors, most notably Ken Loach (whose first directorial roles were in late 1960s kitchen sink dramas) and Mike Leigh. Other directors to continue working within the spirit of kitchen sink realism include Shane Meadows, Andrea Arnold, Clio Barnard, and Lynne Ramsay. The term "neo kitchen sink" has been used for films such as Leigh's 2004 Vera Drake. List of films Look Back in Anger (1959) Room at the Top (1959) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) The Entertainer (1960) A Taste of Honey (1961) A Kind of Loving (1962) The L-Shaped Room (1962) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) This Sporting Life (1963) Billy Liar (1963) A Place to Go (1963) Bitter Harvest (1963) Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) The Leather Boys (1964) The Comedy Man (1964) This Is My Street (1964) Alfie (1966) Georgy Girl (1966) The Family Way (1966) Poor Cow (1967) Up the Junction (1968) Kes (1969) Bronco Bullfrog (1969) Spring and Port Wine (1970) List of plays Look Back In Anger (1956) My Flesh, My Blood (Radio play, 1957) A Taste Of Honey (1958) Sparrows Can't Sing (1960) Alfie (1963) Up the Junction (TV play, 1965) Cathy Come Home (TV play, 1966) See also Ashcan School – equivalent American art movement Italian neorealism Naturalism References External links "Beyond the Kitchen Sink" on BBC Radio 4 (2017) BFI: British New Wave Tucker, David, ed. British Social Realism in the Arts