Directed by Beryl Lacey

Cast List
Frank	Bill Beck
Rita	Janet Wyatt

Susan White, a married woman in her twenties and working as a hairdresser, signs up for an Open University course because she is eager to learn about English literature. She changes her name to Rita because Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae West is her favourite book. Her husband strongly opposes her decision and urges her to have a baby instead.
At the university she meets her tutor, Frank Bryant, who is an unsuccessful middle-aged academic with a drink problem who has no experience in teaching working-class students but has agreed to tutor OU students because he desperately needs the money. Overcoming his initial repulsion at teaching literature to an entirely uneducated person, his ambition to turn Rita into a respectable and educated member of society gets the better of him. When he sees how quickly Rita learns and how eager she is, he falls in love with his 'creation' but fails to see that she is no longer dependent on him.

Rita and Frank get acquainted	Rita goes to leave within minutes
Rita starts to expound her philosophy	Meaningful discussions about literature
Rita waxes lyrical about the theatre	The pressure (and alcohol) gets to Frank