The last night of Hobson’s Choice
Most people remember John Savident as Coronation Street’s recently deceased butcher Fred Elliott. Fred was a self-made man, a local personality, a mainstay at the Rotary Club. A character on the cusp of extinction in today’s Britain: part of the local Con club scene, part of the furniture along with the photos of once successful football [...] More about The last night of Hobson’s Choice
Making a song and dance about it
Brief Encounter, The West Yorkshire Playhouse Noël Coward’s play Still Life (1936) formed the basis of the wonderfully restrained (or rather dry, depending on your sympathies) 1945 film Brief Encounter. The film tells the story of Laura Jesson, a terribly middle-class, well-to-do sort of housewife who takes the train at Milford Junction to do a few chores. [...] More about Making a song and dance about it
