The Riff Raff Element
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The Riff Raff Element is a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock for BBC One.[1][2] The series was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 1994.[3]
Plot
The basic plot was "the Tundishes, down-at-heel country aristocrats, are compelled to rent out their former servants' wing and live cheek-by-jowl with the vulgar Belchers from Salford"[4] so simultaneously drawing on the English north-south divide and class divide.
Cast
The Belchers
- Trevor Peacock – Acky Belcher
- Susan Brown – Maggie Belcher
- Mossie Smith – Petula Belcher
- Jayne Ashbourne – Carmen
- Cal MacAninch – Declan
The Tundishes
- Ronald Pickup – Roger Tundish
- Pippa Guard – Phoenix
- Richard Hope – Mortimer Tundish
- Celia Imrie – Joanna Tundish
- Nicholas Farrell – Boyd Tundish
- Greg Wise – Alister
- Stewart Pile – Oliver Tundish
- Stewart Bewley – Oliver Tundish
- Ashley Wright – Nathan Tundish
Others
- Lionel Guyett – Father Casper
- Dicken Ashworth – Nelson
- Kate Binchy – Dearbhla
- Brenda Bruce – Granny Grogan
- George Costigan – Vincent
References
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- ↑ Debbie Horsfield article in The Independent
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External links
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- [https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_riff_raff_element/
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- Plot summaries at BFI, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 12 August 2014.