Moira Armstrong (born 1930) is a Scottish television director whose career has expanded over nearly fifty years."Moira Armstrong - Watching Ourselves: Sixty Years of TV in Scotland"
BBC website Born in Crieff and raised in north-east Scotland, Armstrong initially worked in BBC Radio where she trained as a continuity announcer before switching to television. Her credits include episodes of '' Armchair Thriller'' (based on the novel '' Quiet as a Nun''), '' The Onedin Line'', '' Lark Rise to Candleford'', '' Where the Heart Is'', '' The Bill'', ''

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'', '' The Wednesday Play'', and '' Adam Adamant Lives!'', the biographical serial ''

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'' (1984) as well as the television film '' The Countess Alice'' (1992). She also directed the 1971 adaptation for television of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's ''

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'', notable not only for being the first drama to be recorded in colour by

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but also featuring its first nude scene. Armstrong (with Jonathan Powell) won the 1980 BAFTA Best Drama Series/Serial award for '' Testament of Youth'' (1979).

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'' (and Waris Hussein, 1974)

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