It was an affectionate send-up of the radio soap The Archers, which is billed as “an everyday story of country folk” whereas the Cloggies were “an everyday story of clog-dancing folk”. The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by the English author John Galsworthy, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Once Soames, Jolyon, and Irene discover their romance, they forbid their children to see each other again. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.

For more than 40 years Bill regaled Camra members with the battles between the ale-loving Kegbuster and such giant brewers as Grotnys and Twitbread that attempted to replace cask beer with keg. The series was axed from the Daily Mirror in 1985, the year after tycoon Robert Maxwell had purchased Mirror Group Newspapers.

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At one time he was drawing six strips and he said he had to be careful not to mix them up and send them to the wrong newspapers or magazines. The background was soot and chimneys and Bill described it as “a classic tale of struggle, power, personalities … and tripe. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. He concocts a plan to move her to a house he is having built at Robin Hill, away from everyone she knows and cares for.Performed in London and the north in the early 1980s, it was an exuberant mixture of satire and coarse humour, including a scene where the actors threw tripe at the audience – and usually had it thrown back at them. In 1994 Suleika Dawson published a sequel to The Forsytes titled The Forsytes: The Saga Continues in which Soames's daughter, Fleur, Lady Mont, is the main character. A cheerfully anarchic playscript by Alan Plater based on Bill Tidy's characters, the Fosdykes, from, if I remember rightly, Private Eye. The first was probably a radio production of The Man of Property in 11 weekly parts commencing 9 December 1945 on the BBC Home Service.