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Ankerside

or Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

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Ankerside

By: John Garforth
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 Thursday evening. Inky Venables returns to his home town in the Midlands, sacked after ten years as a national journalist in London. It is the week before Christmas and he faces a bleak future, sustained by memories of past headlines and the hint of a job on a new Sunday regional paper. He still has his dreams. "On the principle that a writer should write about what he knows," John Garforth says, "I know about local government and local politics. This is a dull subject, but the people involved are as accident prone and interesting as the egomaniacs in any other walk of life." This novel is adapted from the radio drama of the same name. "Ankerside was a six hour local radio soap for Palace FM, commissioned by Jules Cadie and financed by West Midlands Arts. We recorded it at the studio in the Palace Media Centre. Then as the month long broadcasting licence began we found the Palace FM committee of local disc jockeys had banned it. Readers of the Tamworth Herald with long memories will remember that it was front page news for weeks, it made TV Central News and cable television from Scotland, not to mention The Stage. If the chairman had said it was badly written and badly performed we would have kept quiet, but he made the mistake of saying it was excellent, the kind of radio drama he enjoyed himself, but he was afraid the programme monitor in London would find it too racy and political. So more people heard about Ankerside and its scandalous fate than would ever have listened to it on radio."
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