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Jan. 31st, 2008 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersAfter eating a small supper of smoked salmon I wandered back into my study, and for want of anything better to do turned on the telly.
It was tuned to BBC Three, and it was about ten pm.
The programme showing was Eastenders, repeated from the earlier evening showing on BBC One.
Now I'm not a fan of soaps in general, nor 'Eastenders' in particular, but because (as shall be revealed) I had some small connection with the show (well a couple actually) I watched it.
It was a single-handed episode. June Brown, who plays Dot....well I quote from wiki...and please note, I didn't write the wiki entry.
"On January 31st 2008 June made history by being the first and so far only actress to carry an entire episode single handed in the history of British soap, with a monologue looking back over her past life, dictated to a cassette machine for her husband Jim to listen to in hospital following a stroke."
This performance must be the best I've ever seen in a soap*: in fact, if it had been an Alan Bennett 'Talking Heads' play it would have won every acting award available to UK television programmes.
Now I have to declare an interest here: a few years ago I stepped out with June's eldest daughter, Louise. In fact she (the daughter, that is) is mentioned in my blog as 'The Glamorous Ex', and is someone of whom I am still extremely fond, though I haven't seen her for many months, as she now lives in another country.
Even so, tomorrow I shall go to my florists, buy a dozen roses, and deliver them to June's door. The woman is a genius, even if she used to be in the position of mother-in-law by proxy, and we disagreed terribly on politics.
*Not that I watch soaps that often. This was a happy co-incidence.
It was tuned to BBC Three, and it was about ten pm.
The programme showing was Eastenders, repeated from the earlier evening showing on BBC One.
Now I'm not a fan of soaps in general, nor 'Eastenders' in particular, but because (as shall be revealed) I had some small connection with the show (well a couple actually) I watched it.
It was a single-handed episode. June Brown, who plays Dot....well I quote from wiki...and please note, I didn't write the wiki entry.
"On January 31st 2008 June made history by being the first and so far only actress to carry an entire episode single handed in the history of British soap, with a monologue looking back over her past life, dictated to a cassette machine for her husband Jim to listen to in hospital following a stroke."
This performance must be the best I've ever seen in a soap*: in fact, if it had been an Alan Bennett 'Talking Heads' play it would have won every acting award available to UK television programmes.
Now I have to declare an interest here: a few years ago I stepped out with June's eldest daughter, Louise. In fact she (the daughter, that is) is mentioned in my blog as 'The Glamorous Ex', and is someone of whom I am still extremely fond, though I haven't seen her for many months, as she now lives in another country.
Even so, tomorrow I shall go to my florists, buy a dozen roses, and deliver them to June's door. The woman is a genius, even if she used to be in the position of mother-in-law by proxy, and we disagreed terribly on politics.
*Not that I watch soaps that often. This was a happy co-incidence.
