The Hard Sell
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Advertising: the rattling of a stick in a swill-bucket? Welcome to the show where the stick rattles back: The Hard Sell. Adverts from history, treated with the respect they deserve.
This episode: Easter again! Broadcasting not live from not Bournville, a special episode where most of the products are chocolate and all of them are Cadbury's! Not Cadbury, and certainly not Mondelez, but Cadbury's. Canadian Flakes! Hip Bars of Six! Dried milk for sad people! Quakerism!
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King's Norton isn't bad, but it's not as posh as Bournville. Ironically, the only place you could get an alcoholic drink in Bournville used to be the Cadbury's social club. I don't know whether that's still true...
Oh, and The Bed Sitting Room is one of British cinema's best kept secrets, despite having a brilliant cast and daring to laugh in the face of nuclear armageddon, it nearly destroyed director Richard Lester's career and was unfairly dumped by United Artists.
Cadbury’s. Said it before, Peter Cadbury, heir to the chocolate millions, owned Westward TV and Westward Air.
I wonder if the Canadian product was proper Cadbury’s chocolate as a Bournvillian would recognise it, or whether it was that vile stuff the Americans call chocolate, which tastes of sick?
That Canadian advert for Bar Six comes across like a production of Bugsy Malone where they couldn't get any kids so they settled for twentysomethings instead.
Wait, isn’t this episode #209 ?
Worked there in Bournville during the mid 2000s before the "event" you speak of. They really did look after you as an employee and there were generations of the same families working in the factories at Bournville and other locations around the UK.
The chocolate in the staff shop was a nice perk. Now open to the public if you visit Cadbury World.
I think I prefer the Canadian approach to the Flake ad. My friend and I had them frequently in our school years, but because of the pitch I felt somewhat embarassed.
I'm planning to go to Bourneville some time soon. I'll let you know what King's Norton is like.
Wait, that *IS* a harpsichord. I hadn't noticed that. (They still kept a piano to do the melody, and that grabbed my attention)
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