Shakespeare or Bust
- Episode aired Jan 8, 1973
- 1h 22m
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8.1/10
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Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.
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- Trivia"Shakespeare or Bust" was of a trilogy of plays based on trips out taken by the same three characters - miners from Leeds. The other two plays are "The Fishing Party", set around a trip to Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast, and "Three for the Fancy", set around a trip to a 'fur and feathers' country show. These were all part of the BBC's "Play for Today" series, which produced numerous fantastic screenplays for TV in the 70s and early 80s (it was supposedly scrapped to reallocate funds towards the creation of Eastenders!)
- ConnectionsFeatured in Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today (2020)
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Hugely entertaining
This series is excellent, but I found this episode particularly good. The characters and the actors who play them are fantastic. It has the right measure of humour, without trying too hard. Three guys who can equally look forward to a couple of pints, getting to know a gorgeous woman, or seeing a Shakespeare play. It's easy, and also wrong and silly, to dismiss it today (2022) as dated, slow-paced etc. But judged in context, especially if you lived those years, it's superb.
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