BBC - Ridley Road / 62 Group tv drama Oct 3rd

[The39thStep]

There's an interesting chapter regarding the NSM and the arson attacks on synagogues from a most unlikely source in Scotland Yard's Gangbuster: Bert Wickstead's Most Celebrated Cases - author Dick Kirby. Chapter 3 .

Scotland Yard's Gangbuster

In the late 1960s the Richardson Torture Gang and the Kray Twins were removed from the London scene by ACC Gerry McArthur and DS Nipper Read respectively.Predictably it was not long before the vacuum this left was being filled. With McArthur retired and Read moved on, who was to sort out the new...

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[AmateurAgitator]

Did you manage to read the whole article? I only read the pre-paywalled section and was satisfied that I didn't really need to go any further, I love that she also object to the BBC making a drama about the Dreyfus affair though.

It was enough for me to just read the pre-paywalled version.

 

[bimble]

That moment on the train, episode 4, when he says, we are everywhere, we will triumph, and she calls out for help and the nice old English couple keep reading the papers and ignore her. That right there is what my subconscious looks like.

 

[DaveCinzano]

A bunch of interesting things on that channel, which rumoured to be run by one of Hackney's sexiest radical history nerds?

A crowded field TBF

 

[Kaka Tim]

got as far as episode 2 - enjoying it a lot. Good to see militant anti fascism portrayed in a sympathetic light - and cant think of another drama where the focus has been on Britain's underrepresented Jewish community. question though - did the NSM openly display swastikas at their rallies? cant see that going down well anywhere less than 20 years after the war.

 

[butchersapron]

No one commented on the corbyn/being left wing is an anti-semitic make up of the cast and production? I think a lot of people getting mugged.

The show itself is appalling. Badly written, acted, plotted, cast etc. Just fucking...argh

 

[butchersapron]

Carry on Up Cable Street - now, that is an idea with legs...

 

[moochedit]

did the NSM openly display swastikas at their rallies? cant see that going down well anywhere less than 20 years after the war.

Yes i thought that as well.

 

[Kaka Tim]

doing some reading around about the NSM - and learnt that Dennis Healey punched out Colin Jordon when he tried to interrupt Healey at a public meeting! Doesn't quite make up for his election losing wage freeze and selling out to the IMF - but respect to the eyebrows on that one.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

This is good from a friend:

Anti-fascism 1962 - the real battles of Ridley Road and Trafalgar Square

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[Fedayn]

No one commented on the corbyn/being left wing is an anti-semitic make up of the cast and production? I think a lot of people getting mugged.

The show itself is appalling. Badly written, acted, plotted, cast etc. Just fucking...argh

Other than Obermann and Marsan l, ironically a married couple in this show, who else was part of that shitty crew?

 

[Larry O'Hara]

There's an interesting chapter regarding the NSM and the arson attacks on synagogues from a most unlikely source in Scotland Yard's Gangbuster: Bert Wickstead's Most Celebrated Cases - author Dick Kirby. Chapter 3 .

https://books.google.pt/books?id=IL...ases - author Dick Kirby. Chapter 3 .&f=false

Yes that book is interesting in four ways
1) It shows how close Gable has always been to the cops
2) It repeats the claim that Dukes had a 'change of heart' due to a Jewish girlfriend: not only hardly credible, that he was involved in making the detonators yet got a lesser sentence can be viewed in a different light than a simple change of heart. >>
3) The possibility should not be excluded that he was sent into the NSM in the first place...
4) It does not of course (and neither has any other Ridley Road puff piece) mention Bidney's conviction as a pimp procuring young boys. Fancy that...

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Yes i thought that as well.

They certainly did use swastikas, but more frequently a cut-down Celtic Cross (ie just within the circle). And it didn't go down well: hence them getting mullered at Trafalgar Square etc.

 

[hitmouse]

got as far as episode 2 - enjoying it a lot. Good to see militant anti fascism portrayed in a sympathetic light - and cant think of another drama where the focus has been on Britain's underrepresented Jewish community. question though - did the NSM openly display swastikas at their rallies? cant see that going down well anywhere less than 20 years after the war.

Belatedly reading this thread now I've finished watching the tv series, that History is Made at Night blogpost has some good contemporary newspaper clippings on this point:

Includes the vital information that the Farmers' Arms pub in Gloucestershire is still open, if you're ever in that part of the world and fancy a historic antifascist pint.

 

[JimW]

Gloucestershire, la la la...

 

[DaveCinzano]

"One man to a man!"

That famous Nazi sense of fair play there

 

[DaveCinzano]

Belatedly reading this thread now I've finished watching the tv series, that History is Made at Night blogpost has some good contemporary newspaper clippings on this point:

Includes the vital information that the Farmers' Arms pub in Gloucestershire is still open, if you're ever in that part of the world and fancy a historic antifascist pint.

When White Power more than met its match in Guiting Power

 

[Fozzie Bear]

This is a nice podcast about the general history of Ridley Road market with particular focus on the current struggles there against Hackney Council’s redevelopment plan. Lots of good box pops from market traders:



There is stuff on Mosley and anti-fascism too.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is a nice podcast about the general history of Ridley Road market with particular focus on the current struggles there against Hackney Council’s redevelopment plan. Lots of good box pops from market traders:



There is stuff on Mosley and anti-fascism too.

I've heard some astonishing things about Ridley Road, covered markets (the people who have all the shops on the south side of the road), Birkbeck Road and the vexed question of the name of the road connecting Birkbeck mews and Birkbeck road. All sorts of strange shenanigans have gone on there, and it's strange the land down birkbeck road which is worth rather more than a hundred million pounds has remained unbuilt on for so many years

 

[Pickman's model]

Fozzie Bear a few years back the land registry knew nothing of the extension of Birkbeck mews to Winchester place