best play I've listened to so far!

A truly stunning piece of work and brilliantly executed by all. Ta!

Love this Brilliant Thank You to Chesterton & BBC RADIO 4 🇮🇪🍀🎉🎁🎊❤️🎂🤣

Hope You put up MORE of DAVID HALLIWELL 🎉❤🎊🎈🤣🇮🇪🍀💚

Thoroughly enjoyed this play. Loved the fast paced representation of thoughts.

@louisbrugnoni1291

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

Almost gave up early on; the parents drove me nuts! But I'm glad I stayed with it. Short but fun philosophy course. There is no grand "Meaning" or "Purpose" to our lives but the meaning or purpose we continually choose for ourselves. Loved the fast-paced, thinking-and-saying way of telling the story. I listen to many programs from Chesteron and am so happy when I come across one of these gems. Thank you.

@blixten2928

3 жыл бұрын

I agree completely. Beckett-influenced dialogue and a fun premise, a good discussion, interesting characters... wonderfully done, look forward to more!

@mellisande638

3 жыл бұрын

I agree completely!😊😁 Darned good fun🤣

@Cheepchipsable

3 жыл бұрын

I think the parents were meant to drive the listener potty.

@blixten2928

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cheepchipsable Perhaps they had to be shown to be the reason this guy is so desperately in search of an identity. They had nothing to give him. But it seems that almost everyone's identity is very, very fragile...

@mikewellwood1412

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cheepchipsable They came out with every known northern working-class cliché, and then some.

Enjoyed listening to the northern working class dialogue! I so appreciate these plays. Thank you Chesterton.

Just a quick thank you for keeping me interested and amused throughout the lockdown periods of the previous year. It is very much appreciated.

Great to hear my 'pin-up' audio actor Nigel Anthony in a very unusual part - for him.

Brilliant!

Excruciatingly brilliant !!

The author had fun writing this and I enjoyed it!

Great fun!!:-)

That was exhilarating, excrutiating, exhausting, It may have changed my life. I'm not sure. I need to think about it. I'll let you know further down the track.

@applesandpears9756

Жыл бұрын

Did it? I'm dying to know!

This was a funny, madcap, play! Thoroughly enjoyed it!! 😆👍

Gavin Bagley is lost and aimless and doesn't know what to do with himself or life. Then he discovers he's adopted. If only he can find his true parents. the clue to his personality will be unlocked. He might be a genius, a poet, a politician

@tottiemae2258

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the synopsis!

@TedaR

3 жыл бұрын

Tysm Henry!

@TedaR

3 жыл бұрын

@@tottiemae2258 I see you tottie...ha-ha! (thanks anyway dear) 😉😊

@tottiemae2258

3 жыл бұрын

@@TedaR You caught me, Teda. 😂

@henrydarker4314

3 жыл бұрын

@@tottiemae2258 You're welcome tottie. I must admit that I didn't listen to the play as it didn't appeal to me :-)

Just loved this play…so well done…thanks for the down load 🙏

Good stories like this grab you from the beginning! 👍

Brilliant acting.

One word ,,Fantastic. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

The beginning reminded me of Billy Liar. Both characters had no idea where they were going and had domineering parents.

@rahawa774

3 жыл бұрын

I taped the 1963 film starring Tom Courtenay a couple of weeks ago - going to watch it over the weekend!

@kimberlykasimoff1447

3 жыл бұрын

There was an old radio programme called the Bickersons about a husband and wife who bickered. The beginning with the family bickering, was annoying. Now I'm listening to the son talking to his mother, and I'm about to give up on this show.

@mikewellwood1412

3 жыл бұрын

Also, shades of "The Four Yorkshiremen" by the Monty Python team.

I think Gavin did find a link with his parents :-))) They, as he, were worried about their purpose and finding their vocation as well as place in life! At the end of the story all three of them exclaim: 'What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?' His non-blood parents never asked this question, they were content with everything and were convinced that they have all the answers to all the questions! Gavin was the one who was not satisfied who searched for answers. The same did his blood parents at one point or the other in their lives! They found their purpose - Gavin's mother in baking and signs from the divine, Gavin's father in political belief and social purpose - the trade unions. And Gavin found some consolation in believing that he is now and here and consists of present moments that make up his life and help him to reflect his identity! I think his self-discovery journey had a great outcome. he just was not able to see it straight away...

My great cousin wrote this David halliwell Spencer

A very interesting format, so well-acted, sounded like chanting magic formulas, poetry, stream-of-consciousness comedy, great fun! Gorgeous to listen to. THANKS.

So far, my thoughts are these. Thank God they were not my parents. I would be in prison long ago.

@olivemd

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I didn’t stop listening. It was rather good after those adopted parents were gone.

I couldn't today 🙈 will try it again another day

Hilarious!

Inner rollercoaster. I feel dizzy.

Oh wow! That was brilliant ❤️. What dialogue 😁. Thank you so much 🥰.

I'm 12mins in & I keep thinking of Amy Sherman-Palladino. Annoyingly amusing...lol. Ty CR! Do you ever sleep? 😄 Finally it's over & it only took me 6mths to finish it. Exhausting 😁

Wearing my ears out

Sounds interesting

@shalvashugliashvili9150

3 жыл бұрын

What time is it?

Enjoying the story but the poor quality audio/high pitched whistling noise is painful so couldn't make it all the way through.

Anyone reminded of 2 Python sketches?

@jacquelineyaffe6141

3 жыл бұрын

me too, i loved this so life like,one has to understamd mentality

@lindajarvis4517

2 жыл бұрын

You were lucky... (Yorkshire accident)

@paulbennett772

2 жыл бұрын

@@lindajarvis4517 Damn autocomplete!

A case of nature versus nurture and nature appears to be inconsequential but it seems that so does nurture too. SO WHAT he is saying is that neither nature which depends on interpretation, nor nurture play a major part in a person's life???

This is hilarious. It's fast paced because it's meant to convey the quite desperation and the urge to find identity of a young mans life, (those who remember being young might identify with a sense of urgency that one can have), so it's obviously not for those who want a slow paced. His thought are coming quickly, but he is stuck in a very staid world where people all think in a certain way and never question or try to break out of their mould. I've just listened to the scene beginning about 19:15, where he is trying to elicit information from some shopkeepers. Either way, If you want the usually slow paced dramas on this channel, it wont be for you.

brilliant so life like, the americans expect the world to understand them this yorkshire,u.k.

@2msvalkyrie529

Жыл бұрын

My another professional Yorkshire man / woman ? ! It's like a conveyor belt. Apart from which : a North American accent is generally far more pleasant to listen to than incomprehensible Yorkshire gabbling. And I'm British ....so put that in your pipe !!

@2msvalkyrie529

3 ай бұрын

Yes . Everyone in Britain is an intellectual giant . We sit around discussing Metaphysics and Marcel Proust into the wee small hours ...

OMIGOD make it stop

@thisstillchangesnothing

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

The eternal questions. Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? An exercise in a lot of navel gazing. We've all done it. We can all relate. Accept that we aren't special. Get on with living.

Very wity.

Sponge henge?

@TedaR

3 жыл бұрын

IKR ?! lol

@juliakirkman1814

Ай бұрын

This is explained right at the end of this play.

@ 43:22 !.....she mentions 'Sectional Intercourse'....and I - as a Yorkshireman.....I always thought that the very 1st 'act' of any Yarkshire couples would be C-R-I-C-K-E-T !....maybe it's just Me.

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Leaving at 3:27..tarraaaaa

@Cheepchipsable

3 жыл бұрын

We are DEVASTATED!

@2msvalkyrie529

Жыл бұрын

Amazed you lasted that long.....! Good decision . It didn't get any better ..!

Usually, if I don't like the theme/or story line of a play, I turn it off, and find something that will hold my attention. It was the interplay with the very professional actors, and their sharp timing, that kept me tuned in. None of the characters are likeable, and Gavin really needs to find his "raison d'etre.".....or find a girl friend, or get a dog, or perhaps join The Foreign Legion......I would prefer him to take the third option.......................When I was left all at sea, halfway through this play.....I could hear myself screaming, "WHAT DO I DO! WHAT DO I DO! 😖👎👎👎👎👎

7

Too much loud shouting at the beginning so gave up as my ears were ringing !

@Cheepchipsable

3 жыл бұрын

Try turning down the volume?

@deegeraghty9426

3 жыл бұрын

It's aggressive shouting ! Turned down the volume but still found it impossibe. Tried forwarding story on to see if shouting would turn into normal dialogue but my new tablet will not 'jump' forward ... no worries 🙂

@suspendeddisbelief401

3 жыл бұрын

@@deegeraghty9426 The parents carried on shouting...don't know how anyone could have enjoyed that.

This play could have been better if it had been done differently. So over the top with all the shouting 🤔🤔🤔

49:37 into this…..and I just can’t…🤦🏻 How did I last that long. 🙄

A very hard listen, tried to stick with it but gave up.

Sorry, but what a load of twaddle spoken at the rate of knots....

@freednb

3 жыл бұрын

voices are hammering into my brain need to listen to something else 😂

@michaelberg9656

22 күн бұрын

Don't display your ignorance.

Didnt grab me, not the best play ive listened to. Disappointed 🥱

Whimsical " Northern " humour . Which becomes tiresome after about 10 minutes. Only cliche missing was " there's trooble at t' mill " .

poor quality audio. Shame.

This play is awful.