Dorset filming of Mike Leigh's Play for Today Nuts in May

Filmed mostly outside, comedy Nuts in May stars Alison Steadman (who was then married to Mike Leigh) and Roger Sloman.

The satirical play is about a middle-class couple who go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Nuts in May was ranked 49th in the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. Nuts in May is highly regarded and often quoted, and is said to have achieved cult status.

It remains a popular episode of Play for Today and it's worth watching just to see our spectacular Dorset scenery.

The film is set in Purbeck and the characters visit a number of significant points of interest including Corfe Castle, Stair Hole, Kimmeridge, Lulworth Cove and the Jurassic Coast.

The campsite used for filming was Corfe Castle Campsite, just outside Corfe Castle, which is still used as a campsite today. The quarry visited is Keats Quarry in Acton.

The location was chosen at the suggestion of the producer David Rose, who came from Purbeck: "I told Mike Leigh about the quarries in the district and asked him to film everything out of doors, under the skies; he reneged only slightly on this condition – there is one sequence of about one minute twenty seconds, in the Greyhound pub near Corfe Castle, and one short scene in a toilet.

"Apart from that, the only interiors are those of some very small tents."