A Day in the Life of Jeffrey Bernard - Arena (Fri 10th Oct 1997) revised repeat
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- "...the Arena programme from 1987 on Jeffrey Bernard, who died last month, which follows him through his regular Soho eating and drinking haunts, in the betting shop and struggling with his column for The Spectator."
I was in Soho yesterday remembering these legends. Admirable, relatable but perhaps unsustainable.
I've looked for this for years, having watched it when it was first shown. I think of it every time I'm in London. What a character.
Glad I found this. I recently read Soho in the Eighties (Christopher Howse). It was great to put some faces to names in the book. Funniest thing was Mr Bernard's lunch companion trying to dissuade Alfredo from bursting into song. Hilarious!
Thanks for posting.
14:22 Wonderful to see an appearance from Tom Baker!
Yes, for a time he was married to Lala Ward.
But she left him because:
(And allegedly she really said this)
"He never does the washing up and is either pissed or in the pub"
The late Cormac McCarthy also liked the company of 'dodgy' characters, evidenced in, for example, his novel 'Suttree', which is said to be pretty autobiographical.
As a guest on 'Desert Island Discs', Mr Bernard himself explains that when he was unable to write because of being unwell, it was because of his diabetes, not because he was hung over.
I think of Raymond Carver and Charles Bukowski when I think of Jeffrey Bernard. I place these men together.
Legend
Friday 10th October 1997
Tom Baker the only survivor of those days, he must have an amazing constitution
Bernard would have hated the smoking ban.
BBC TWO Continuity On Friday 10th October 1997.
"A suicide note in weekly instalments!"
Geez, he was a one-finger typist like Harold Robbins!
How very droll those columns were!
Old skool wfh
Perfect Day was shown in full was it?
It wasn't the full version, but it caused the last video I left it in to be partially blocked, so it seemed easier to omit it this time. I'm just surprised that I didn't record the Bill Oddie programme.