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- ↑ Mark Sedgwick. Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age (2016), 019997764X p. 237 "His second play, The Face of Love, won him a contract with the British state broadcasting service, the BBC, where he worked until the mid-1960s, writing the scripts for three television series and a number of stand-alone plays".
- 1 2 3 David Miller, The Peter Cushing Companion (2002), p. 45.
- ↑ Quentin Falk. Albert Finney in Character: A Biography (1992), p. 23 "This was Fernald's production of Ian Dallas's The Face of Love, a modern-dress version of Troilus and Cressida."
