I’m off! Plus two Wednesday Plays: Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton and Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965)

5 March 2013 Rob Buckley The Weekly Play 3 Comments

The Venetian in Las Vegas

I’m off to Las Vegas. Yes, I am, for I was married there 10 years ago on Sunday and we’re going back there to celebrate. I doubt there’ll be any 1960s-style cowboys-cum-sherrifs to see while I’m there – although there should be some gondoliers – but I’ll be off until next Wednesday at least, when some attempt at normal service might resume.

Until then, have loads of fun without me, watch good tele, chat among yourselves (and if you’re just lurking, feel free to introduce yourself to the other commenters – they’re all very nice people) and guard the blog against interlopers.

If you can’t find any good tele, here are two of Dennis Potter’s classic The Wednesday Plays for you to enjoy: Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton and its sequel, Stand Up, Nigel Barton, which aired just a week later in 1965. As always, if you like them, buy them!

TTFN!

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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