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Jul 16
One can only sit back and wonder at what the world of England in 1981 must have been like. A world in which three hours of primetime Christmas television programming on BBC1 (not BBC2, mind) was set aside for a film of comparatively funereal pacing.
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Jul 16
Alan Gibson and Jeremy Paul’s sequel to the cracking time travel comedy-drama The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980). Although inferior to its predecessor and as such something of a disappointment, it is anything but the disaster that it might have been.
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Jul 16
So, it turns out that flying saucers aren’t occupied by little green men from outer space after all, but by time travelling civil servants from the year 2130. At least, that is according to this television film from 1980 that was filmed as part of the acclaimed BBC’s Play for Today series.
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Jul 16
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959), are a pair of long short stories written by Salinger about the Glass family. The former ostensibly about Buddy Glass, and the latter about Seymour Glass, but quite often it appears that the opposite is true. Although, really, both stories are about the relationship between the two brothers, Buddy and Seymour, or more precisely, Buddy’s recollections of their relationship.
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Jul 16
To fully appreciate this collection of short stories, one must, I think, be familiar with the author Alexei Sayle’s stand-up or television sketch comedy work. His prose very much mirrors his angry, ranting, incredulous Liverpudlian persona. Not that I want to put off the uninitiated, because I’m sure that they will be able to find plenty of enjoyment within these stories. But the punch-lines and expletives are far more effective when shouted in the voice of an overweight Scouser.
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