The Charge of the Boy's Brigade by Ronnie Smith

[william warren]

Ronnie Smith 's affectionate play is set in the early 1950s with a group of friends facing National Service.

He has been a playwright since 1966 & has also written under the names of John Naismith and Robin Smyth.(See A Craving for Gold in Whodunnit Discussions).

Anson (Bob) Roberts has kindly offered to post the sequel; Cherries Hung with Snow (2000). Keep an eye out for it.

Cast:

Tommie.........George Cole

Young Tommie.........David Thorpe

Vi.........Natasha Pyne

George.........Brian Murphy

Gran.........Joan Littlewood

‘Creamcake’.........David Holt

‘Eggo’.........Ross Livingstone

Sid’.........David Jarvis

Daph’.........Louisa Gallagher

Dor’.........Deborah Berlin

Lily.........Becky Hindley

Mr Christie.........John Hartley

The Magistrate.........James Taylor

Flossie.........Jenny Forsyth

Clippie.........Claira Mackie

Betty.........Louisa Seddon

Dor’s Mum.........Suzanne Banks-Henegan

Croker.........Ben Lemel

‘Ginge’.........Eamonn Fleming

‘Fizzy’.........Paul Daintry

‘Stumpy’.........Daniel Philpott

other parts were played by members of the cast

Directed by Enyd Williams

Originally broadcast on 16^th March1996.

Size 80Mb. Length 87 Minutes. Bitrate 128kbps

http://1drv.ms/1D1riqI

 

[Anson (Bob) Roberts]

As an aside, there is an episode of The Fall of the Mausoleum Club that is also entitled "The Charge of the Boy's Brigade"

[Anson (Bob) Roberts]

I have the sequel if you want it.

The title is from Housman's A Shropshire Lad:

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

[william warren]

If you would be so kind, Bob.

I will be able to work on something else; like fussing my mistress (the Persian) who has been feeling neglected of late. Hell hath no fury......She has been sharpening her claws with a nail file.

[Anson (Bob) Roberts]

Posted as a new thread

[Gayle Crane]

Thank you much!

[abby]

Thanks William!