The Poolie Bunker

An Audience with Ricky Tomlinson at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium in Yarm....can't wait.

The man is quality seen him in Leeds many years back. Much funnier in real life thats for sure.

A bit like you.

Well that was an absolute bag of shite!!

I saw him once a few years ago and he was going on about how the navvies who were building the docks were let down by their Union….there was no Union in 1829…banghead

was he a big letdown or was it the audiance he had that made him less political than he can be.

The audience probably thought he was going to be like his character Jim Royle in The Royle Family, tbh the odd one I watched I never found it funny. He was overshadowed by Sue Johnson a great actress, one of her best performances was a 3 part TV series Goodbye Cruel World where she played a woman who was diagnosed with degenerative illness.

He was very good in Raining Stones.

Sounds like you were whelmed Mutters?sctatchinghead

he was the right man for the part like the rest where to make the programme popular. like so many others before they get the cast spot on but in subsequent reasons once shows go longer they are less good with different people in them. think hi di hi suffered more than most in this has have all the soaps.

You can't beat Dad's Army. Gets better each time I watch it.

'Vot is your name Private?'

don,t tell him pike.

"They don't like it up 'em"