Moonlight on the Highway

Writing for ITVs SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world A troubled young man David Peters Ian Holm claims Once dreams were possible thats what the popular songs told us Rejecting rock music of the day Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly killed during the London blitz He collects Bowlly memorabilia publishes the Bowlly fanclub newsletter and finds pleasure in lipsynching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past