Kitchen Sink Realism
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Lifelong fan of British Social Realism / Kitchen Sink Realism in books & film (40+ yrs). Former fertility scientist & lecturer.
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Kes & A Kestrel For A Knave
Kes directed by Ken Loach from the novel A Kestrel For A Knave by Barry Hines. David Bradley plays Billy Casper. Produced by Tony Garnet.
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It is 56 years today since the premier of Kes directed by Ken Loach took place, based on the book A Kestrel For A Knave by Barry Hines. This article is dedicated to both the book & film.
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#AKestrelForAKnave
#KenLoach
#TonyGarnett
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For those who are'nt on Mixcloud & would like to listen, here is my latest upload of Jayne's Soulful Sunday Volume 6 on Mixcloud 😊 x
Jayne Soulful Sunday Volume 6
Listen to Jayne Soulful Sunday Volume 6 by Jayne Thomas
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November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
For those who are'nt on Mixcloud & would like to listen, here is my latest upload of Jayne's Soulful Sunday Volume 6 on Mixcloud 😊 x
John Braine, one of the "angry young men" whose novels I must re-visit. I do think he was an underrated writer. Source - First Edition, Room at the Top by John Braine published by Penguin Paperback in 1959. 📚
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
John Braine, one of the "angry young men" whose novels I must re-visit. I do think he was an underrated writer. Source - First Edition, Room at the Top by John Braine published by Penguin Paperback in 1959. 📚
I appreciate that is will not be everyones' cup of tea. Like kitchen sink realism, I am also passionate about the genre of 60s soul music. Should anyone who likes soul music be interested, I will be uploading my mix to Mixcloud on Sunday at 7pm GMT. Many thanks Jayne 😊
It's been a while I know 😊... This Sunday evening at 7.00 pm GMT I will be uploading my latest mix to Mixcloud ... Jayne's Soulful Sunday Volume 6 🎶🎶🎶 For those who would like to listen I will post up the link here : www.mixcloud.com/jayne-thomas/ ....
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November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I appreciate that is will not be everyones' cup of tea. Like kitchen sink realism, I am also passionate about the genre of 60s soul music. Should anyone who likes soul music be interested, I will be uploading my mix to Mixcloud on Sunday at 7pm GMT. Many thanks Jayne 😊
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Director Tony Richardson. Screenplay Allan Sillitoe, from his short story. Tom Courtenay's magnificent debut. The seeds of the 60's revolutions buried herein.
December 5, 2024 at 2:41 PM
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Director Tony Richardson. Screenplay Allan Sillitoe, from his short story. Tom Courtenay's magnificent debut. The seeds of the 60's revolutions buried herein.
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August 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Watching Violent Playground for a young hoodlum David McCallum and Stanley Baker being a policeman! 😆
Violent Playground (1958) ⭐ 6.6 | Drama, Crime
1h 48m
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March 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Watching Violent Playground for a young hoodlum David McCallum and Stanley Baker being a policeman! 😆
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#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies
49/1000:
THE ENTERTAINER
Olivier repeats with underrated success the stage role of Archie Rice, a seedy music hall entertainer whose career is waning, in this kitchen sink drama film. This movie checks off all the boxes for a genuine drama showing the downside of fame.
49/1000:
THE ENTERTAINER
Olivier repeats with underrated success the stage role of Archie Rice, a seedy music hall entertainer whose career is waning, in this kitchen sink drama film. This movie checks off all the boxes for a genuine drama showing the downside of fame.
June 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#Edwards1000SixtiesMovies
49/1000:
THE ENTERTAINER
Olivier repeats with underrated success the stage role of Archie Rice, a seedy music hall entertainer whose career is waning, in this kitchen sink drama film. This movie checks off all the boxes for a genuine drama showing the downside of fame.
49/1000:
THE ENTERTAINER
Olivier repeats with underrated success the stage role of Archie Rice, a seedy music hall entertainer whose career is waning, in this kitchen sink drama film. This movie checks off all the boxes for a genuine drama showing the downside of fame.
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I’m me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that’s what I’m not, because they don’t know a bloody thing about me.
Alan Sillitoe
4.03.1928- 25.04.2010
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#AlanSillitoe
Alan Sillitoe
4.03.1928- 25.04.2010
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March 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I’m me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that’s what I’m not, because they don’t know a bloody thing about me.
Alan Sillitoe
4.03.1928- 25.04.2010
#BookSky
#AlanSillitoe
Alan Sillitoe
4.03.1928- 25.04.2010
#BookSky
#AlanSillitoe
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15 August 1963:
Comedy drama ‘Billy Liar’, based on the eponymous 1959 novel and directed by John Schlesinger, premiered in London.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
IMDb score: 7,2/10
#FilmSky #MovieSky #TodayAtTheMovies
Comedy drama ‘Billy Liar’, based on the eponymous 1959 novel and directed by John Schlesinger, premiered in London.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
IMDb score: 7,2/10
#FilmSky #MovieSky #TodayAtTheMovies
August 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
15 August 1963:
Comedy drama ‘Billy Liar’, based on the eponymous 1959 novel and directed by John Schlesinger, premiered in London.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
IMDb score: 7,2/10
#FilmSky #MovieSky #TodayAtTheMovies
Comedy drama ‘Billy Liar’, based on the eponymous 1959 novel and directed by John Schlesinger, premiered in London.
Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%
IMDb score: 7,2/10
#FilmSky #MovieSky #TodayAtTheMovies
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#NowWatching This is My Street (D:Sidney Hayers, 1964)
"John Hurt is in two scenes, and one could say he steals the film simply by doing nothing. Ian Hendy appears to be auditioning for Coronation Street, which, frankly, this film could easily be mistaken for."
"John Hurt is in two scenes, and one could say he steals the film simply by doing nothing. Ian Hendy appears to be auditioning for Coronation Street, which, frankly, this film could easily be mistaken for."
September 21, 2024 at 9:29 AM
#NowWatching This is My Street (D:Sidney Hayers, 1964)
"John Hurt is in two scenes, and one could say he steals the film simply by doing nothing. Ian Hendy appears to be auditioning for Coronation Street, which, frankly, this film could easily be mistaken for."
"John Hurt is in two scenes, and one could say he steals the film simply by doing nothing. Ian Hendy appears to be auditioning for Coronation Street, which, frankly, this film could easily be mistaken for."
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New statue of Billy Casper and Kes (from the book/film Kes) opposite one of the houses where the author Barry Hines lived. And a hundred yards from the chippie where Billy went.
January 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New statue of Billy Casper and Kes (from the book/film Kes) opposite one of the houses where the author Barry Hines lived. And a hundred yards from the chippie where Billy went.
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Charity shop find: a nice 1988 Virago Modern Classics edition of Nell Dunn’s 1967 novel Poor Cow, with cover art by James Mayhew. Looks like a review copy, with compliments slip still inside.
June 14, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Charity shop find: a nice 1988 Virago Modern Classics edition of Nell Dunn’s 1967 novel Poor Cow, with cover art by James Mayhew. Looks like a review copy, with compliments slip still inside.
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February 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Manchester, 1964, photo by Shirley Baker.
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Manchester, 1964, photo by Shirley Baker.
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63 years ago:
The L-Shaped Room (UK)
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. Afte...
1962-11-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76000
The L-Shaped Room (UK)
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. Afte...
1962-11-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76000
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
63 years ago:
The L-Shaped Room (UK)
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. Afte...
1962-11-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76000
The L-Shaped Room (UK)
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. Afte...
1962-11-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76000
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Morning all.
Whitby, 1960s No image credit, from Si Jubbs Found Series.
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Whitby, 1960s No image credit, from Si Jubbs Found Series.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Morning all.
Whitby, 1960s No image credit, from Si Jubbs Found Series.
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Whitby, 1960s No image credit, from Si Jubbs Found Series.
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Yorkshire, 1965, photo by John Bulmer (b.1938).
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Yorkshire, 1965, photo by John Bulmer (b.1938).
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"Flight to Camden," by David Storey (1960) is a novel I read about 27 years ago. It tells the story of Margaret, who leaves behind the northern town she originates from & moves to Camden. David Storey writes about social mobility and the inner conflict of leaving the past behind.
December 27, 2024 at 5:31 PM
"Flight to Camden," by David Storey (1960) is a novel I read about 27 years ago. It tells the story of Margaret, who leaves behind the northern town she originates from & moves to Camden. David Storey writes about social mobility and the inner conflict of leaving the past behind.
"Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language" an interesting read surrounding the ground breaking play by John Osbourne.
#lookbackinanger
#johnosbourne
#angryyoungmen
#lookbackinanger
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#angryyoungmen
Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language
Jimmy Porter takes on class, religion, politics and the press in Osborne’s classic 1956 play – but its real revolution lay in its thrilling linguistic exuberance
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November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language" an interesting read surrounding the ground breaking play by John Osbourne.
#lookbackinanger
#johnosbourne
#angryyoungmen
#lookbackinanger
#johnosbourne
#angryyoungmen
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First watch: Whistle Down the Wind (1961), dir. by Bryan "Stepford Wives" Forbes. Alan Bates stars, in a breakthrough role, as a criminal on the run in rural Lancashire whom local kids mistake for Jesus. Part children's film, part fuzzy religious allegory, it makes great use of its bucolic setting
July 21, 2024 at 3:21 PM
First watch: Whistle Down the Wind (1961), dir. by Bryan "Stepford Wives" Forbes. Alan Bates stars, in a breakthrough role, as a criminal on the run in rural Lancashire whom local kids mistake for Jesus. Part children's film, part fuzzy religious allegory, it makes great use of its bucolic setting
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58 years ago today the BBC first broadcast "Cathy Come Home." Directed by Ken Loach, its gritty documentary-style depicted the downward spiral of a young couple into homelessness and inspired the creation of several UK homelessness charities.
November 16, 2024 at 7:10 AM
58 years ago today the BBC first broadcast "Cathy Come Home." Directed by Ken Loach, its gritty documentary-style depicted the downward spiral of a young couple into homelessness and inspired the creation of several UK homelessness charities.
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Watching the Ken Loach/Barry Hines teleplay, The Price of Coal, on YouTube.
There's some telly royalty in it including a 'young' Seth from Emmerdale!
youtu.be/gDpBuFqWeSs?...
There's some telly royalty in it including a 'young' Seth from Emmerdale!
youtu.be/gDpBuFqWeSs?...
March 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Watching the Ken Loach/Barry Hines teleplay, The Price of Coal, on YouTube.
There's some telly royalty in it including a 'young' Seth from Emmerdale!
youtu.be/gDpBuFqWeSs?...
There's some telly royalty in it including a 'young' Seth from Emmerdale!
youtu.be/gDpBuFqWeSs?...
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I remember as a child seeing ‘Kes’, Ken Loach’s adaptation of Barry Hines’ novel about a boy who adopts a kestrel. So it was lovely to see a tribute to Hines in his home town of Barnsley.
Also loved mooching round The Glass Works shops & market, with its nod to history.
#Kes #TheGlassWorks #Barnsley
Also loved mooching round The Glass Works shops & market, with its nod to history.
#Kes #TheGlassWorks #Barnsley
February 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I remember as a child seeing ‘Kes’, Ken Loach’s adaptation of Barry Hines’ novel about a boy who adopts a kestrel. So it was lovely to see a tribute to Hines in his home town of Barnsley.
Also loved mooching round The Glass Works shops & market, with its nod to history.
#Kes #TheGlassWorks #Barnsley
Also loved mooching round The Glass Works shops & market, with its nod to history.
#Kes #TheGlassWorks #Barnsley
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Love this VF video of Mike Leigh doing commentary on all his feature films (sadly - tho understandably, as this already clocks in at 56 mins - omitting his telefilms), from BLEAK MOMENTS up to HARD TRUTHS:
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Mike Leigh On Every Film He's Directed Over 50+ Years | Vanity Fair
YouTube video by Vanity Fair
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January 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Love this VF video of Mike Leigh doing commentary on all his feature films (sadly - tho understandably, as this already clocks in at 56 mins - omitting his telefilms), from BLEAK MOMENTS up to HARD TRUTHS:
youtu.be/UxEqqRa_Tn4?...
youtu.be/UxEqqRa_Tn4?...