RBWTV March 22nd 2025 Side hustles and alternative careers.
We all need to make ends meet, and back in the Golden Age of British television it was just the same. In this episode, Guy Morgan and David Newell check through the cvs (or resumés if you're American) of well known faces who appeared on the nation's screens between 1956 and 1974.
Some opened restaurants, while many more paid the rent by working in them. Others showed off a wide range of craft and design skills and became more famous for those. And a couple rose up the food chain to produce landmark television.
We ask:
What do classically trained actors bring to the table (literally) when they are between jobs?
How did a butcher and sausage magnate become a star of radio and TV?
And how is Adam Adamant connected to bedroom furniture?
The closing edit of Bartender by Eric Tubb and Loretta Lynn is an MCA Nashville Release ℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc and be heard in full on YouTube.
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