The Daily Mirror's Fosdyke Saga One

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In this first novel of the Forsyte Saga, after introducing us to the impressive array of Forsytes headed by the formidable Aunt Ann, Galsworthy moves into the main action of the saga by detailing Soames Forsyte's desire to own things, including his beautiful wife, Irene Forsyte (née Heron). A cheerfully anarchic playscript by Alan Plater based on Bill Tidy's characters, the Fosdykes, from, if I remember rightly, Private Eye. Then Soames confronts young Jolyon and Irene at Robin Hill, falsely accusing them of having an affair. For more than 40 years Bill regaled Camra members with the battles between the ale-loving Kegbuster and such giant brewers as Grotnys and Twitbread that attempted to replace cask beer with keg. I think the play may have had its day, but it might work well in somewhere like Manchester with an industrial past and a deep sense of its own identity in a small theatre with a decently behaved audience looking for a cheerful, rollicking excursion into a kind of cultural absurdity that both critiques and celebrates itself.

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The strip followed the misadventures of a team of clog dancers who took on rival teams and developed such tactical foot manoeuvres as the Triple Arkwright and the Heckmondwycke with Reverse Spin, with the aim of triumphing over their opponents. But while Jon reads the letter, Jolyon suddenly dies of a heart attack, and Jon is left torn between the past and his present love for Fleur. However, the slightly bizarre and strange antics of the characters and those around them had a Lancashire/ Cheshire lean, with mangles, chimneys and soot ever-present. When I became editor of What’s Brewing, I got to know Bill well and visited him at his home in Leicestershire.It read "I super-dedicate in its entirety The Forsyte Saga whose first word was written on Campden Hill, London of a May morning in 1903 and whose last word was written at Hampstead on 15 August 1920. The radio adaptation starred (among others) Miriam Margolyes, Enn Reitel, Christian Rodska and David Threlfall. And who would nubile young nymphet Victoria Fosdyke meet but young Roger Ditchley, who seems to be taking a very friendly interest.

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In January 2016, BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting a new radio adaptation by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan under the title The Forsytes, scheduled to continue until late 2017.The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature. Separate sections of the saga, as well as the lengthy story in its entirety, have been adapted for cinema and television. Following The Forsyte Saga, Galsworthy wrote two more trilogies and several more interludes based around the titular family. Soames and Irene briefly exchange glances at a distance and a kind of peace is made between them, but Soames is left contemplating all that he never really had but tried to possess.