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Ridley Road (TV Series)
''Ridley Road'' is a British four-part television drama which premiered on BBC One on 3 October 2021, about Jewish opposition to British Fascism in the 1960s. It was adapted by Sarah Solemani from Jo Bloom's 2014 novel of the same name. The series is directed by Lisa Mulcahy and the executive producer is Nicola Shindler. Plot summary Vivien Epstein is the daughter in a traditional suburban 1960s Manchester Jewish family, comprising father David, mother Liza and a relative Roza whom the family is sheltering. The father arranges a marriage (with neither Vivien's desire nor her consent) with the father of a local Jewish boy. Vivien already has a beau, Jack, who leaves for London, desolate. Vivien has no intention of becoming a bride. She leaves to find some Jewish relatives in London, rents a room with non-Jewish East End resident Nettie Jones, and gets a job as a hairdresser in Soho. Far-right fascism is on the rise. One of her East End relatives, Soly Malinovsky, is a London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridley Road (novel)
''Ridley Road'' is a 2014 novel by Jo Bloom, in which the 62 Group and opposition to 1960s British neo-Nazis such as Colin Jordan are a backdrop to the narrative. Ridley Road in Dalston in London's East End was well known as a fascist meeting place in the 1960s, around which battles took place. It was adapted by Sarah Solemani as ''Ridley Road (TV series), Ridley Road'', a four-part drama by BBC One, which was premiered on 3 October 2021. References External links ''Ridley Road''on Jo Bloom's official website''Ridley Road'' at Internet Archive 2014 British novels category:British historical novels British novels adapted into television shows Anti-fascism in the United Kingdom Dalston Weidenfeld & Nicolson books {{2010s-hist-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hackney Carriage
A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi) is a carriage or car for hire. A hackney of a more expensive or high class was called a remise. A symbol of London and Britain, the black taxi is a common sight on the streets of the UK. The hackney carriages carry a roof sign TAXI that can be illuminated at night to indicate their availability for passengers. In the UK, the name ''hackney carriage'' today refers to a taxicab licensed by the Public Carriage Office, local authority (non-metropolitan district councils, unitary authorities) or the Department of the Environment depending on region of the country. In the United States, the police department of the city of Boston has a Hackney Carriage Unit, analogous to taxicab regulators in other cities, that issues ''Hackney Carriage'' medallions to its taxi operators. Etymology The origins of the word hackney in connection with horses and carriages are uncertain. The origin is often attribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Hogan
Stephen Hogan is an Irish actor and audiobook narrator. Biography Hogan was born in August 1965 and grew up in Darty, Dublin, Ireland. Hogan says he studied architecture at Edinburgh University but upon graduating did not see himself in that profession for the remainder of his life. He says he obtained financially useful scholarship to Royal College of Music and Drama in Glasgow (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), and was also able to obtain a part-time job in an architect's office at the same time. Upon qualifying from drama school in 1992 Hogan says he was lucky to get a role on the long running Scottish Soap drama ''Take the High Road'' with its "crazy characters", his recollections of his storylines as new character was "I worked my way through the entire female case over 60 episodes". He moved to London after leaving the soap, but has returned to Ireland frequently for work and pleasure since. His uncle, Paul Hogan, was one of two students behind the audacious 1956 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Hatchard
Danny-Boy Hatchard (born 26 July 1991) is an English actor, known for portraying the role of Lee Carter in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. Hatchard's other credits include Aaron in the 2014 film ''We Still Kill the Old Way'' and Steven Pierce in the 20th anniversary production of '' Beautiful Thing''. In July 2019, it was announced that he will play Private Rhett Charlton in the fourth series of ''Our Girl''. Career On 21 January 2014, Hatchard was cast in the role of Lee Carter in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. He began filming his first scenes in February. It was announced in 2016 that Hatchard would leave ''EastEnders'' in 2017. He returned temporarily in late 2019 for a short stint, and again in December 2020. In 2020 Hatchard joined the cast of the BBC military drama ''Our Girl ''Our Girl'' is a British television military drama series, written and created by Tony Grounds, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013. The series initially starred Lacey Turner as M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Betts
Nigel Betts is an English actor, who from 2003 to 2007 appeared on the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' as Eddie Hope. He also portrayed Tony in the BBC Two sitcom '' Boy Meets Girl'' and had a recurring role as Mr Armitage in the eighth series of ''Doctor Who'' as well as in ''Class'', a ''Doctor Who'' spin-off. Betts has also appeared in several other British television programmes such as ''Downton Abbey'', ''Doctors'', ''EastEnders'', ''Holby City'', ''Coronation Street'', ''The Bill'', '' Ridley Road'', and the much acclaimed ITV series, '' Sharpe''. He also played a singing bartender in an episode of the sitcom '' As Time Goes By'' and Steve Taylor's laconic neighbor in an episode of the sitcom ''Coupling''. In 2016 he appeared as Brian Teddern in ''The Coroner'', S2:E5 “The Captain’s Pipe”. In 2009 he played Tommy in the eighth episode of the fourth series of ''Doc Martin''. Betts has also numerous theatre credits including playing an assortment of roles for the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Corduner
Allan Corduner (; born 2 April 1950) is a British actor. Born in Stockholm to a German mother and a Russo-Finnish father, Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in London. After earning a BA (Hons) in English and Drama at Bristol University he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked extensively on stage, TV, and film, both in the UK and in the United States. His voice is familiar from many BBC radio plays, audio books and TV documentaries. Corduner made his feature film debut in '' Yentl'', with Barbra Streisand and Mandy Patinkin. Of his 44 films he is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's ''Topsy-Turvy''. He also voiced Gehrman the first hunter in the 2015 video game ''Bloodborne''. Early life Corduner grew up in a secular Jewish home in North London with his parents and younger brother. His mother had escaped to Great Britain from Nazi Germany with her family in 1938. His father was born in Helsinki, Finland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Krynke
Julia Krynke (born 20 November 1979) is a multilingual Polish actress, voice over artist and trained classical musician based in London, UK. She is known in the UK for her roles in TV series '' Spooks'', '' Holby City'' and ''The Street'', and has had a successful career in cinema, theatre and TV in Germany, Poland and Ireland. She is fluent in Polish, English and German. Education Krynke is a graduate of the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Wroclaw, Poland (1998–2002) and the Centre for Theatre Practices, Gardzienice, Poland (2001–2003) and has attended the Michael Chekhov Studio London, UK (2008–). She studied Grand Piano and Flute at the State Music School (1986–1997) in Opole, Poland. Career Julia Krynke has worked extensively in film, television and theatre in Poland, Germany, Ireland, and the UK. Soon after the completion of her studies, Krynke made her big-screen debut playing one of the lead roles in the much-acclaimed '' Distant Lights'', dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jewish Chronicle
''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Dior
Marie Françoise Suzanne Dior (7 April 1932 – 20 January 1993) was a French socialite and neo-Nazi underground financier. She was the niece of French fashion designer Christian Dior and Resistance fighter Catherine Dior, who publicly distanced herself from her niece after she married British neo-Nazi activist Colin Jordan in 1963. She was a close friend of Savitri Devi. Early life and family Marie Françoise Suzanne Dior was born on 7 April 1932, the daughter of Madeline Leblanc and Raymond Dior, a left-wing journalist and the brother of French couturier Christian Dior and Resistance fighter Catherine Dior. Her father Raymond, who had been employed at the family business headquarters in Paris for some years, was a Communist International sympathizer, to the despair of his own father Maurice Dior, a fertilizer industrialist. Raymond was involved with the satirical gazette ''Le Crapouillot'' and embraced radical ideas, advocating the '' conspiracy theory, that is the belief th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Movement
The British Movement (BM), later called the British National Socialist Movement (BNSM), is a British neo-Nazi organisation founded by Colin Jordan in 1968. It grew out of the National Socialist Movement (NSM), which was founded in 1962. Frequently on the margins of the British far-right, the BM has had a long and chequered history for its association with violence and extremism. It was founded as a political party but manifested itself more as a pressure and activist group. It has had spells of dormancy. Formation The NSM had come to an end sometime after Colin Jordan was imprisoned in early 1967 for distributing a racist leaflet ''The Coloured Invasion'' and following his release Jordan had met John Tyndall in Denis Pirie's house about the possibility of joining the National Front. These talks came to nothing however and with the Race Relations Act 1968 passed the notion of openly parading Nazi credentials in a party name had to be abandoned, leading to Jordan forming a new grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Jordan
John Colin Campbell Jordan (19 June 1923 – 9 April 2009) was a leading figure in post-war neo-Nazism in Great Britain. In the far-right circles of the 1960s, Jordan represented the most explicitly "Nazi" inclination in his open use of the styles and symbols of Nazi Germany. Through his leadership of organisations such as the National Socialist Movement and the World Union of National Socialists, Jordan advocated a pan- Aryan "Universal Nazism". Although later unaffiliated with any political party, Jordan remained an influential voice on the British far right. Early life The son of a lecturer, Percy Jordan, and a teacher, Bertha Jordan, Jordan was educated at Warwick School from 1934 to 1942. During the Second World War he attempted to enlist in the Fleet Air Arm and the RAF but after failing the tests for both he enlisted in the Royal Army Educational Corps. After being demobilised in 1946 he studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating in 1949 with second class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Varey
Tom Varey is a British actor. He is known for his roles in '' Pond Life'', ''No Offence'' and '' Ridley Road''. Early life Varey grew up in Mossley, Greater Manchester. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for three years from 2011 to 2014. Career After graduating, Varey starred as Bert Middleton in series two of BBC One series '' The Village''. From 2015, he had a main role in the Channel 4 television series ''No Offence'' as PC Stuart O’Connor, playing the role for all three series until the programme ended in 2018. In 2016, he featured in an episode of the sixth season of '' Game of Thrones'' as Lord Cley Cerwen and in episode 1 of ITV series '' Dark Angel'' as Billy Mowbray. Varey played PE teacher Will Simpson for the first two series of ''Ackley Bridge ''Ackley Bridge'' is a British comedy-drama series set in a multicultural academy school of the same name. The series is filmed in Halifax, West Yorkshire and it began broadcasting on Channel 4 on 7 Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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