Kes written by Barry Hines performed by Colin Welland on Cassette (Abridged)

This item has been graded as Acceptable due to a tape tension issue at the beginning of tape 1 which lasts for a couple of seconds. Other than this the tapes play perfectly. Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school and at home: he's neglected by his mother, beaten by his brother ....

and bullied on all sides. He adopts a fledgling kestrel and treats it with all the tenderness he has never known.

Slowly, he begins to see for the first time what he could achieve if only he tried.