Produced for the BBC2 Playhouse strand and shown during the Objects of Affection season, Alan Bennett's bold and unusual Marks is a visually interesting and well-acted though only mildly engaging television drama that just about gets by on ambition and moxie.
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"Les is an aimless young man, unemployed and still living with his mother. He decides to give her a present – her name tattooed on his arm…" BBC
See also:
BBC2 Playhouse (1973–83)
Objects of Affection (1982)