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Produced by BBC Manchester, Get The Drift was a television version of the Radio 4 show Northern Drift, starring northern writer and actor Henry Livings and humorous Geordie songwriter Alex Glasgow, with music by folk group The Fivepenny Piece (pictured below).
The series – recorded in the round at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton – provided an offbeat package of slightly surreal quick-fire sketches, biting prose and songs of social comment. Guest stars included Bernard Cribbins, Roy Kinnear and Bryan Pringle.
Get The Drift returned in 1976 for another six episodes.
Henry Livings
Alex Glasgow
The Fivepenny Piece
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