BBC R4 - East Coast Girls Are Hip

BBC R4 - Ian McMillan's 'East Coast Girls Are Hip'

Songs by Big George Webley

Directed by Gary Brown

Broadcast December 29, 2005

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



1960. Grimsby. Will the Humber Sound take off?

The lads have got a band. They've stolen a song.

But can they get a contract?



Or is it back to the trawlers?



Cast

Janice - Sue Kelly

Olive - Eileen O'Brien

Tommy - Gerard Fletcher

Norman - Davis Fleeshman

John - Finetime Fontayne



Musicians

Big George Webley

Thomas Webley

Ben Hallett

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Ian McMillan is Barnsley AFC's poet in residence,

and often chairs BBC Radio 3's 'The Verb'.

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