Something to watch on telly at last

[Hilldodger]

It's a great film if you havent seen it

A Day Out

Sunday 06 December
6:05pm - 6:55pm
BBC2

Alan Bennett's first television play, directed in black and white in 1972 by Stephen Frears. A charming comedy set in Edwardian Yorkshire, it follows a cycling club on a day out. A fantastic cast features Brian Glover, who was still a professional wrestler at the time, and Paul Shane, who was then a club comic.

 

[palinurus]

Cheers!

 

[snakehips]

.............. and Fulham are on live tonight . Not often you can say that.

 

[ColinJ]

My elderly mother rang me up this morning to tell me that this film was going to be on. I'm especially interested because the club run in question starts from Halifax, just down the road from here.

I hadn't spotted this thread before, but I thought I'd nudge it back up after searching to see if anybody had posted about the film.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Sorry Hilldodger. In my rush to give the heads up, I didn't see your post. I'll get me coat!

 

[ColinJ]

My elderly mother rang me up this morning to tell me that this film was going to be on. I'm especially interested because the club run in question starts from Halifax, just down the road from here.

A lot of the shots of cobbled streets seem to have been filmed here in Hebden Bridge. I'm sure that one of those streets is within 100 yards of my house.

I know for sure that the ridiculously steep cobbled lane the cyclists descended early on was actually The Buttress, here in Hebden Bridge:

I quite enjoyed the film. One thing though - nobody I know ever carries a cricket bat on group rides! It might be handy for fending off chavs and muggers though...

 

[rich p]

I love Alan Bennett especially in interview but I thought this film showed an early promise but not the finished article. Nice but underwhelming.

 

[Noodley]

I know for sure that the ridiculously steep cobbled lane the cyclists descended early on was actually The Buttress, here in Hebden Bridge:

I thought I recognised it

Apart from being able to tell Mrs Noodley that I had cycled up and down that road I found it a bit dull and switched it over...

 

[ColinJ]

I thought I recognised it

Apart from being able to tell Mrs Noodley that I had cycled up and down that road I found it a bit dull and switched it over...

I think you might have seen it from the car park I saw you in (it's about 50 yards from there) but the audax route you tackled (Season of Mists) uses the road up to Heptonstall rather than The Buttress.

Cyclists are theoretically supposed to be able to ride up The Buttress (it is part of the Pennine Cycleway), but the usual way of ascending it is thus:

PS I've just had the horrible thought that you might actually have ridden The Buttress by mistake!

 

[Noodley]

PS I've just had the horrible thought that you might actually have ridden The Buttress by mistake!

No, my mistake.

One stoopidly steep cobbled road likes like any other stoopidly steep cobbled road to the untrained eye

 

[ColinJ]

No, my mistake.

One stoopidly steep cobbled road likes like any other stoopidly steep cobbled road to the untrained eye

Gotcha... (Heptonstall)

 

[Fnaar]

Missed it, and it isn't oniPlayer :-(

 

[zizou]

good play/programme with a very poignant end to it

 

[Hilldodger]

It is a very good representation of a cycling club of the period. It's just a shame that some of the bikes used were 1930's. Although I'll admit to always being critical of historical accuracy while at the same time dressing 1970's tandems up to use in a film set in the 1930's

 

[Arch]

I think we should revert to some of that formality on CC rides and call each other Mr and Miss....

They were filming something round the corner from me on Friday, apparently the cobbled street was doubling as a street in 1820's Halifax - they'll have to have got the right angle so as not to get the blooming great Minster in the background.... I suppose the real Halifax cobbled streets are too Victorian for the period...

I had to work, so couldn't go and have a nose - the day they filmed Heartbeat outside, I watched the whole lot (including car chase!) from my window... Fascinating, seeing them block out the burglar alarm boxes and so on....