Penda's Fen is a 1977 British BBC 'Play for Today' television drama film. It features Spencer Banks, John Atkinson, Georgine Anderson, and Ron Smerczak. Summer 1955, and pastor's son Stephen must come to terms with his own identity amid societal pressure, religious guilt and his own imaginings. Play for Today is a British BBC television anthology drama series, which originally aired between 1970 and 1984. A film restored by the British Film Institute (BFI).