Just a boys game

[57vintage]

For some reason Just Another Saturday came to mind last night, the scene where the tiny-cocked Orange marchers are in what is termed “Fenian Alley” and where the band is encouraged to give the marching tunes even greater volume. As they proceed through this RC-heavy ghetto, a resident of an upper tenement flat throws what turns out to be brown “erse effluent” towards the bigot gammons below. The unfortunate recipient of the brown bomb reacts by shouting in enraged tones to the artilleryman above:

“YE DIRTY BASTURT”

to which the response is:

“YOU CANNAE SPEAK - YOU’VE GOT SHÎTE ON YER FACE”.

Owned.

[Freescotland]

Aye Just Another Saturday was very good play as well Vintage.

[NaeMairNeeps]

Ah near pissed masel laughin at the bit where an auld beggar is tappin' money aff the character played by Jon Morrison.

Morrison has the coin in his hand but hesitates ... and asks 'what dye want it for?'
to which the auld guy says somethin like "what's it got tae dae wi' you whit Ah dae wi' ma money? .. now, gies it!" ... crackin!

[georgejohn12]

I’ve got the whole Peter McDougall BBC plays, and the film far they blow up a bank vault as an Orange parade provides the noise camouflage up at street level. I think I got the box set in Fopp for a fiver.
He and John Byrne are screenwriting geniuses.

[RED_JOHN]

I have seen this a couple of times but years since my last viewing.
It was enjoyable.

[Mason89]

Never seen it

[57vintage]

“Peter McDougall Remembers - The Elephants’ Graveyard (BBC4, 10pm, Wed 23 October)
The Playwright recalls working on his 1976 Play for Today episode, which starred Billy Connolly and Jon Morrison as a pair of unemployed men who meet while wandering Glasgow after telling their wives they’re going to work.

That’s followed by another chance to see the play in full (10.10pm), and another of McDougall’s plays Just a Boys’ Game (11pm), in which Frankie Miller depicts a young man who grew up idolising his grandfather and sees a different side to the old man as he nears the end of his life.”

It’s on BBC4, so make sure you’ve paid your licence fee.

[TheDeeDon]

“Peter McDougall Remembers - The Elephants’ Graveyard (BBC4, 10pm, Wed 23 October)
The Playwright recalls working on his 1976 Play for Today episode, which starred Billy Connolly and Jon Morrison as a pair of unemployed men who meet while wandering Glasgow after telling their wives they’re going to work.

That’s followed by another chance to see the play in full (10.10pm), and another of McDougall’s plays Just a Boys’ Game (11pm), in which Frankie Miller depicts a young man who grew up idolising his grandfather and sees a different side to the old man as he nears the end of his life.”

It’s on BBC4, so make sure you’ve paid your licence fee.

Watched The Elephants' Graveyard tonight. Had never seen that before and thought it was excellent, especially the ending.

Saw the playwright speaking about how he was supposedly a postie and wandered around Glasgow for two weeks before confessing to his Wife. Who knew all the time. 😂

Licence fee paid, as always.