Episode Details

This week David and Jack present The Showman, the Diver, and the Padre from Benjamin Peel and Breakwater Theatre Company.

The Showman, the Diver and the Padre was part of a series of Yesteryear Plays written by Benjamin Peel and produced for the 2020 SOfa Fest by Breakwater Theatre. They explored various historical events that took place in the seaside resort of Skegness, Lincolnshire in the UK. They can all be heard here:

https://www.sofestival.org/main-programme-presenting-the-past/

“I hope that the Skegness crowds will be rather more receptive to me than the somewhat vulgar Blackpool ones.”

It is March 1936 and Billy Butlin is frantically trying to get his first-holiday camp in Skegness ready and open on time. For reasons of their own, both Leslie Gadsby, a dare-devil high diver and Harold Davidson, the defrocked ex-Vicar of Stiffkey have turned up hoping to be taken on as acts. This audio drama imagines a fictional encounter between the three men.

Cast

Billy Butlin – Stacey Gough

Harold Davidson – Edward Peel

Lesley Gadsby – Dan Blacow

Little Jimmy/Bunco Kid – John Hewer

Writer – Benjamin Peel

Produced by Sara Beasley and Jack Pudsey

Sound Producer – Jack Pudsey

Director – Sara Beasley.

Butlin’s Chalet Image

Photograph By Mr M Evison, CC BY-SA 2.0, 

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