[identity profile] imbeiaiel.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] coloured_rain
Alan Bennett's hilariously vicious, deliciously tasteless satire is set in 1947 England, when postwar privations could encourage the most respectable citizens to dabble in black market doings. When Gilbert Chilvers (Michael Palin), a meek podiatrist, and his social-climbing wife Joyce (Maggie Smith) learn that town bigwigs have bribed a farmer to fatten up an unlicensed pig, Joyce persuades Gilbert to kidnap the animal, and mayhem ensues.

Beautifully snarky and Michael is a joy throughout. Somehow I'm glad that I'm a vegetarian :).























Gilbert drinking something horrible that looks rather like Tizer





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