Tuesday, 9 May 2023

East of Ipswich (1987 Tristram Powell)

Michael Palin's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story in dull coastal town in the fifties. Edward Rawle-Hicks fancies Oona Kirsch, but her Dutch companion Pippa Hinchley keeps fucking (literally) things up. 

The staid parents are John Nettleton, Pat Heywood, Allan Cuthbertson, Joan Sanderson (runs boarding house; good), Graham Crowden, Janine Duvitski.

Features "Do come to the sausage sizzlers on Saturday!" sort of thing. 

Love the way it was introduced on BBC4: "Our thoughts are with the Palin family at this time." Oh, sorry - that wasn't a joke. Michael's wife Helen had died on May 2.



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