Ridley Road BBC

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Ridley Road on BBC 1 starts Sunday 9pm.
Drama set in the 60s.

Ridley Road follows the fight of Jewish British people in a post-world war II London against rising Neo-Nazism.

@Hesperatum

Does anyone notice the likenesses with the Brexit campaign?

Totally. Was saying the same to DH. Anti Semitism is still rife too, it’s just tends to be more subtle now.

Really enjoyed this. The lead actor is Agnes O'Casey she is the great granddaughter of the famous Irish playwrite Sean O'Casey

I didn’t know that about Agnes O’Casey.

I was surprised when Jack said he could “pass”. That just seemed odd to me.

Did everyone else notice from the start that Agnes was the Nazi’s wife and the run away daughter?

Watched the first episode this evening and enjoyed it. But it's very obvious that the whole thing was filmed in Manchester, even the scenes set in London.

I thought they were two different girls for most of the episode! Was she his wife, though, or just looking after the little boy?

A woman I know had a grandmother who lived in that area. There was a famous riot and she saw stormtrooper types swarming down the street. Some of them grabbed a little Jewish boy and threw him right through a plate glass window. Horrible.

it was good, it was visually pleasing. and should be good with Eddie Marsden

My dad used to get a bus through Manchester as a schoolboy, and the bus drove down Palatine Road in Didsbury, where quite a few Jewish families lived. As the bus pulled up at the bus stop, the bus conductor would shout " Palestine Road, Yidsbury! " Dad said people looked uncomfortable, but one or two would always snigger.

All that hatred is quite uncomfortable to watch. Obviously their will be some viewers getting bad ideas from it. I agree that it feels like what's going on in the world now.

Loving the EastEnders cast. Especially Tracy Ann overman. She'd do well in some sort of gangster mafia role.

I find it a bit odd. It's interesting enough a story to tell without shoe horning in the romance, the rush across town in the taxi, the girl catching a glimpse of the boy, reuniting in the empty train carriage.

Some of the footage is from the actual time, spliced in, for those asking.
For me, Tracey-Ann Oberman will always be Auntie Val from Friday Night Dinner.

Yes @midsomermurderess, I said to DP "it's Aunty Val and Professor Green (Samantha Spiro's character in Bad Education) in this"!!

@Clawdy

My dad used to get a bus through Manchester as a schoolboy, and the bus drove down Palatine Road in Didsbury, where quite a few Jewish families lived. As the bus pulled up at the bus stop, the bus conductor would shout " Palestine Road, Yidsbury! " Dad said people looked uncomfortable, but one or two would always snigger.

And apparently Ridley Road itself was known as Yidley Road.

Fascinating subject.

I tried to google what Yidbury means but no results came up. Can someone tell me what it means?

Don't know about 'Yidbury' but it seems that because Ridley Road was home to a number of Jewish businesses, fascists and anti semites called it 'Yidley' Road, 'yid' being an abusive term for Jew.

Yiddish was the language of the Ashkenazi Jews, but the word "Yid" was used as an offensive word to refer to someone Jewish. Pretty sure it's not used today.

@PeteWicksSexyPirate

I tried to google what Yidbury means but no results came up. Can someone tell me what it means?

"Yid" is an offensive term for a Jewish person. Yidbury Road was an offensive play on words.

Thank you, Ive never heard of “yid” before

I can't take Sol's son seriously. He looks like a bespectacled version of Jay from The Inbetweeners and is so patronising to Vivien despite looking all of about 16.

@Clawdy

Yiddish was the language of the Ashkenazi Jews, but the word "Yid" was used as an offensive word to refer to someone Jewish. Pretty sure it's not used today.

Sadly, some things don't really change, Yid is still very much in use today. (As is Yok wich is yiddish for a non-Jew/a gentile)

Didn't know that, sansucre, I was hoping it was no longer in use.

@Etinox

Did everyone else notice from the start that Agnes was the Nazi’s wife and the run away daughter?

No I didn't. Doh! In fact when I read your comment I didn't know what you meant! I went out for a run after and was thinking about it and only then twigged!

@Clawdy

Didn't know that, sansucre, I was hoping it was no longer in use.

I'm rather surprised by your naivety.

Without wanting to be flippant, but there is masses of anti-semitism in the UK, but it's now so normalised, many are blind to it. Football is rife with it - Yid often crops up in association with supporters of Tottenham/Spurs.

@sansucre is right. Arsenal even had a chant about it a couple of seasons ago, mixing racism with anti-semitism. It was properly disgusting. And I'm a football fan.