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

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  • @DaveBob1983
    @DaveBob1983 6 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @bertspeggly4428
    @bertspeggly4428 5 месяцев назад +15

    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!

    • @janeclarkson8471
      @janeclarkson8471 2 месяца назад

      Great observation. I felt it wasn't up North.

    • @stellamariayates3776
      @stellamariayates3776 2 месяца назад

      I used to live just down the hill by the Alli Pally!

    • @rabbitss11
      @rabbitss11 Месяц назад

      @@janeclarkson8471 well, it's up North London

  • @wondershaw3356
    @wondershaw3356 3 года назад +8

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

  • @davechurch9354
    @davechurch9354 4 дня назад

    Lo e and respect from nz ❤

  • @australiainfelix7307
    @australiainfelix7307 3 года назад +15

    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 года назад +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 3 года назад

      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 3 года назад +4

      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 6 месяцев назад +1

      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 6 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @victorireland8913
    @victorireland8913 3 года назад +7

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

  • @joannasokoowicz1391
    @joannasokoowicz1391 3 года назад +39

    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 года назад +5

      Thank you, Joanna, for the correct synopsis! 👍

    • @patriciaboyd8035
      @patriciaboyd8035 3 года назад +1

      @@tottiemae2258 qq

    • @stewartmcardle8149
      @stewartmcardle8149 3 года назад +4

      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.

    • @Wendyj55
      @Wendyj55 2 месяца назад

      ​@@stewartmcardle8149: And the following year, Thatcher came to power

  • @jacquelineyaffe6141
    @jacquelineyaffe6141 3 года назад +1

    thank you for hours of enjoyment

  • @mrvilla9100
    @mrvilla9100 7 месяцев назад +2

    Loved it ❤

  • @mrbazzabee4013
    @mrbazzabee4013 3 года назад +8

    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.

  • @mrbazzabee4013
    @mrbazzabee4013 3 года назад +14

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

  • @lisaryan4362
    @lisaryan4362 Месяц назад +1

    I love this one I just finished it

  • @jackiewacky346
    @jackiewacky346 3 года назад +2

    Thankyou very good

  • @deniseroper9030
    @deniseroper9030 3 года назад +5

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

  • @louisbrugnoni1291
    @louisbrugnoni1291 3 года назад +3

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

    • @Angela-cc1hd
      @Angela-cc1hd 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @ranicandrawati2145
    @ranicandrawati2145 3 года назад +5

    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 6 месяцев назад

      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 ???

    • @dianapeek6936
      @dianapeek6936 24 дня назад

      Sadly you won't want to learn about it now. GB is unrecognizable, like another planet. White Anglo-Saxon will soon be in the minority

  • @dl18336
    @dl18336 4 месяца назад +2

    Good story. Good audio

  • @mariadange06
    @mariadange06 Месяц назад +1

    The Boss' Son

  • @cruisepaige
    @cruisepaige 3 года назад +29

    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 6 месяцев назад

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

    • @charlesachurch7265
      @charlesachurch7265 7 дней назад

      The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

    • @albertfinney220
      @albertfinney220 6 дней назад

      Why would you give away the plot ? 🤦🏻

    • @paleochora
      @paleochora 4 дня назад

      It's customary to start such a post with 'Spoiler Alert' so people who don't want to know what happens, don't read it. 🙄

  • @deegeraghty9426
    @deegeraghty9426 3 месяца назад +2

    Great play. Good script. Well acted. Thank you 😊

  • @blackbean4509
    @blackbean4509 3 года назад +6

    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...

  • @rosebud3971
    @rosebud3971 3 года назад +2

    👍👍👍

  • @jude9411
    @jude9411 3 года назад +4

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

    • @mrbazzabee4013
      @mrbazzabee4013 3 года назад +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 года назад +14

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

    • @jude9411
      @jude9411 3 года назад +4

      @@mrbazzabee4013 research sounds like hard work

    • @mrbazzabee4013
      @mrbazzabee4013 3 года назад

      @@jude9411 'Harrumph' !!! Ha.

    • @jude9411
      @jude9411 3 года назад +2

      @@mrbazzabee4013 you have a way with words sir.

  • @shauntaylor9251
    @shauntaylor9251 7 месяцев назад +3

    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

  • @debbielangton8371
    @debbielangton8371 Месяц назад +1

    Nothing wrong with getting married 😂

  • @dirkbogarde44
    @dirkbogarde44 3 года назад +1

    Guessing this is set early 50's?

    • @joannasharpe4294
      @joannasharpe4294 3 года назад +6

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

    • @seriousoldman8997
      @seriousoldman8997 3 года назад +3

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

    • @inasteinbergs1393
      @inasteinbergs1393 3 года назад +1

      @@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 года назад

      38 pounds a week suggests about 1975?

    • @Swimkid1
      @Swimkid1 2 года назад

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

  • @johnandvickirees6993
    @johnandvickirees6993 3 года назад +3

    Synopsis for wrong story.

    • @Tricia8150
      @Tricia8150 3 года назад

      Good one!

    • @tottiemae2258
      @tottiemae2258 3 года назад +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! 🤦‍♀️

  • @honeysuckle4537
    @honeysuckle4537 Месяц назад +2

    ADVERTS TOO MANY

  • @ceceliachristy8785
    @ceceliachristy8785 Месяц назад +1

    As an American, I despise unions.

  • @saradriscoll7829
    @saradriscoll7829 Месяц назад +1

    Commercials

    • @ChestertonRadio
      @ChestertonRadio  Месяц назад +1

      Sorry for the commercials. Settings were wrong. It's fixed now. Thanks for listening.

    • @saradriscoll7829
      @saradriscoll7829 Месяц назад

      @@ChestertonRadio that is so kind, thanks

  • @ashleysaunders9947
    @ashleysaunders9947 21 день назад

    Champagne socialist Brian.

  • @notabene1472
    @notabene1472 3 года назад +4

    Socialist propaganda.

  • @barryc1968
    @barryc1968 2 дня назад

    Complete rubbish