The Boss's Son - Dave Simpson - BBC Saturday Night Theatre

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 54

  • @DaveBob1983
    @DaveBob1983 2 місяці тому +4

    Loved this, great script and performances. Exemplary radio drama. Thank you!

  • @wondershaw3356
    @wondershaw3356 3 роки тому +5

    Absolutely fabulous brought back so many memories .thankyou for providing such a blast from the past

  • @joannasokoowicz1391
    @joannasokoowicz1391 3 роки тому +29

    Synopsis: When Brian Shackleton left school his father wanted him to start in the family business - a woollen mill, but he wanted to go to university. After three years reading English Brian's ideas are changed ...

    • @tottiemae2258
      @tottiemae2258 3 роки тому +5

      Thank you, Joanna, for the correct synopsis! 👍

    • @patriciaboyd8035
      @patriciaboyd8035 3 роки тому +1

      @@tottiemae2258 qq

    • @stewartmcardle8149
      @stewartmcardle8149 3 роки тому +3

      Synopsis above... according to Genome features radio stalwarts very under-rated Christian Rodska, a native of Cullercoats, Ronald Baddiley (Sir Gregory Pitkin ...Men From The Ministry) and Kathleen Helme among many. A Saturday Night Theatre production from 15th April, 1978.

  • @victorireland8913
    @victorireland8913 3 роки тому +5

    Excellent production. Clever story. Engaging characters. Convincing actors. Convolution unwinds. Thanks. Very enjoyable indeed.

  • @mrbazzabee4013
    @mrbazzabee4013 3 роки тому +6

    Just nipping-out to get into shape ( and some extra bits ) for next Wednesdays Local On-Line Duck Herding competition, then I will be back later to listen to your latest 'Saturday Night Theatre' offing Uncle Chesterton. See you then.

  • @jacquelineyaffe6141
    @jacquelineyaffe6141 2 роки тому

    thank you for hours of enjoyment

  • @jackiewacky346
    @jackiewacky346 3 роки тому

    Thankyou very good

  • @mrbazzabee4013
    @mrbazzabee4013 3 роки тому +13

    Eee I yam chuffed !....that were reight gradely were that, leighk. Thankx Uncle Chesterton.

  • @mrvilla9100
    @mrvilla9100 4 місяці тому

    Loved it ❤

  • @deniseroper9030
    @deniseroper9030 3 роки тому +3

    A really good listen. Much appreciated. More please 👏😀

  • @dl18336
    @dl18336 Місяць тому

    Good story. Good audio

  • @australiainfelix7307
    @australiainfelix7307 3 роки тому +9

    He fought for a pay rise and then 25 years later there were hardly any mills left in the UK. Well done, Comrade!

    • @annetthallam7276
      @annetthallam7276 3 роки тому +1

      I wonder how long they had to work to make up for the loss in pay. 5p a day extra ha ha. I come from a working class family. My father and brothers worked in the mill as the unions began rising to power and I have seen first hand the results

    • @aevans-jl9ym
      @aevans-jl9ym 2 роки тому

      In the early 70s, my father was a dustcart driver and my mother was a postwoman thanks to strong trade unions both of them actually worked very few hours a day and were in the pub by 12. Halcyon days cheap cigarettes and beer and the workers were the ones really in charge.

    • @toforgetisagem8145
      @toforgetisagem8145 2 роки тому +3

      The reason had nothing to do with pay. It was the thriving of foreign competion as Britain rebuilt after the war coupled with the advent of synthetic yarns. The British governments would not support retooling so British mills could compete in the synthetic trade , in spite of ICI being British. Government support for industry it was against their free market ideals. One year the Japanese in a trade war bought all the Australian wool thus destroying the wool trade for Britain. In 1952 immigrant labour was brought in to force prices down. Strange how no one is complaining that the mill owners extremely rich. And today the rich are super rich. And thanks for the spoiler.

    • @Angela-cc1hd
      @Angela-cc1hd 3 місяці тому

      Yes well done?? and no more Industry and reliant on cheap badly made goods from other Countries? and no work for those not academically😉 endowed😮

    • @mjrussell414
      @mjrussell414 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Angela-cc1hdWell, that leaves you out I guess. “Academically…” Just kidding - that typo was too perfectly ironic not to pounce on.

  • @blackbean4509
    @blackbean4509 2 роки тому +5

    I've learned so much about people through these radio dramas it's amazing. @42 Im proud of my spinster hood and happy that I never procreated. This PLANET is cursed think about it. The devil is everywhere and nowhere all @ the same time.The 1% that runs it knew exactly what they were doing. SMH think 🤔 about it...

  • @bertspeggly4428
    @bertspeggly4428 Місяць тому

    Great play, thanks, BUT...... The background picture is a street called Hillfield Park in Muswell Hill, a very upscale residential suburb in North London. I spotted it because I grew up there. No Dark Satanic Mills within a hundred miles, I can assure you!

  • @cruisepaige
    @cruisepaige 3 роки тому +13

    Spoiled son comes to Dads mill, messes everything up, toys with local girl despite being engaged then leaves everyone else to deal with his mess.

    • @Angela-cc1hd
      @Angela-cc1hd 3 місяці тому

      Correct, this play is a really good example of someone with no experience of anything and full of Socialist ideology, that never works😮

  • @louisbrugnoni1291
    @louisbrugnoni1291 3 роки тому +1

    Wow! Really believable. Felt like I was right there!

    • @Angela-cc1hd
      @Angela-cc1hd 3 місяці тому

      I was there when chaos ensued in the UK as a result of Strikes😮

  • @ranicandrawati2145
    @ranicandrawati2145 3 роки тому +2

    I do love this story about mills in UK.I am not a British but i do love Great Britain since i was kid and i learned English litetature and yes i love the language ,culture and social life and by listening BBC drama i learn more about Great Britain.

    • @Angela-cc1hd
      @Angela-cc1hd 3 місяці тому

      Nice to hear this comment from a non British person, as now all we get from foreigners is complaining and abusing our Culture, yet they still come here ???

  • @rosebud3971
    @rosebud3971 3 роки тому +2

    👍👍👍

  • @shauntaylor9251
    @shauntaylor9251 3 місяці тому +1

    Eh by eck Ma , trouble at t mill , when i was lad we got up 2 hours before we went to be and worked 26 hours a day 9 days a week
    Grim oop North innit

  • @dirkbogarde44
    @dirkbogarde44 3 роки тому

    Guessing this is set early 50's?

    • @joannasharpe4294
      @joannasharpe4294 3 роки тому +5

      I guess 1970s, after decimilisation, although sounds more dated.

    • @seriousoldman8997
      @seriousoldman8997 3 роки тому +2

      Judging by the amount of booze being knocked back, mid 1970s.

    • @inasteinbergs1393
      @inasteinbergs1393 3 роки тому

      @@joannasharpe4294
      UK went completely decimal on 15th February 1971. (I didn't Google that, I've remembered that date, was just starting my last year at school)🥴
      Agree with you that it sounds dated as if more 50/60's. However I lived in SE England so don't know how it was up in the North of England way back then.🙂

    • @philhealey449
      @philhealey449 3 роки тому

      38 pounds a week suggests about 1975?

    • @Swimkid1
      @Swimkid1 2 роки тому

      A little earlier perhaps? I received £55 in1977. A general storeman wages being average I would think.

  • @jude9411
    @jude9411 3 роки тому +3

    Is that the same Rosalie Williams who plays Mrs Hudson in Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)?

    • @mrbazzabee4013
      @mrbazzabee4013 3 роки тому +2

      When I am not quite sure of something....I have a new fangled device that I use called The Inter 'Web' - It's absolutely fabulous for finding all manner of things out. Good Luck Jude.

    • @mckavitt13
      @mckavitt13 3 роки тому +12

      @@mrbazzabee4013 Maybe Jude enjoys a bit of interaction, esp these shut-in days. Think about it.

    • @jude9411
      @jude9411 3 роки тому +4

      @@mrbazzabee4013 research sounds like hard work

    • @mrbazzabee4013
      @mrbazzabee4013 3 роки тому

      @@jude9411 'Harrumph' !!! Ha.

    • @jude9411
      @jude9411 3 роки тому +2

      @@mrbazzabee4013 you have a way with words sir.

  • @johnandvickirees6993
    @johnandvickirees6993 3 роки тому +3

    Synopsis for wrong story.

    • @Tricia8150
      @Tricia8150 3 роки тому

      Good one!

    • @tottiemae2258
      @tottiemae2258 3 роки тому +2

      Oops! I'm really sorry. I took it down. I'd gotten it from a BBC website. Thanks very much for letting me know! 🤦‍♀️

  • @notabene1472
    @notabene1472 3 роки тому +3

    Socialist propaganda.