Willy Russell's play about a Scouse housewife who leaves her husband
for a holiday romance in Greece was adapted for the screen in 1989,
starring Pauline Collins.
Academics furiously debated the subject of the crumbling British
family and the difficulties of international marriage.
Meanwhile travel agents were beseiged with middle-aged women just
hoping for a bit of nookie on a boat.
Memories
of Shirley Valentine
