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Thought this was really good. Along with 'Blue Lights' which I've just watched too, it does show that the BBC continues to come up with some really good drama.
Michael Elphick’s character in Auf Wiedersehen Pet was very true to life, there were dangerous nutters out there during those times. Misfits who were ‘on the run’ from the UK or just out and out chancers who decided that they were a bricky or chippy because they’d heard the money was decent. Many’s the time I was asked ‘cover for me’ if a polier (chargehand/foreman) was doing the rounds. They were the ones who flitted from job to job after being found out, very often not getting their last week’s pay and then claiming they were ‘knocked’.
Watched 1st episode, good acting from Spall, but thought it was slow and not something I could binge one after the other.
Got Boon mixed up. That was another character he played 😂.
What yrs did you work there?
I’ve worked on plenty of sites in the UK, and remember Auf Weidersehen being so realistic.
As you say though, plenty of dodgy characters on foreign sites. Have you ever seen a film called Riff Raff? Set on a site in England. Ricky Tomlinson and a young Robert Carlyle in it. Hilarious.