@@gerryhouska2859 Hereford in 1986 - Earthly paradise it most certainly was not. Old enough now to compare today's extremist whining about the "good old days" with the moaning going on 40 years ago. Having said that there was little fond memorising for rationing.
Alick Rowe, the writer of this series was inspired by me and my young teen innocence to write this series for the BBC. He chose the title of the series after joking that it is that upfront of a title, nobody will suspect his relationship with me. While he wrote this in his office, I lay tied to his bed knacked. He abused me daily for years, serious abuse. Even the paper boy at the start was inspired by me, I remember he joked about including this paperboy scene, that this was my virtual part. Later after he showed me off, all 14 years old of me, to his friends from the BBC in a restaurant one evening, I was given a walk on part in one episode. I was his paperboy and that's how he lured me into his apartment. I still suffer today from all the abuse, the drugs and torment he plied on me.
I am sorry you had this experience. I watched this as a 14 years old and was greatly inspired by it. Whilst I am sorry for the abuse you suffered I feel I owe you something for sharing aspects of your life with us. Please keep in touch if you want.
@@adampowell5376 Adam, thank you. We owe it to society and those ahead of us to share that children can hide the truth from family and friends in the face of abuse and to be always on the look out for signs. I feel I have so much to offer parents in my own story particularly as the truth in my childhood lies hidden by this very tv series, a few books, other TV programs, schools, doctors, BBC and family. I must of displayed all the signs in my being but faced with that all that I lived the lie. Thank you for your understanding Adam
@@greenfingers1969 Thank you for your reply. Correct me if I am wrong but this series was only shown once. It was not very popular. It was not shown again. Not many people remember it. I was attracted to it because at the time, as a boy of the same age, I was attracted to Neil Jeffrey and from the series got involved in a lot of "emotional stuff". I do not in any way want to ignore your pain but the distorted message of the story will not have got to many people. I think you have an interesting point though: writing a story about the abuse of children is a possible cover for abuse and it is point that needs to be shared.
I ask myself that daily considering the intensity of abuse I got from him in plain view of all. Slow and malicious and using his bbc writer status as a cover i hope the world didn’t choose to look away and that he was just too good at blinding them. Thank you for your compassion and loving energy
I left England in 1983 to move to the US and I’ve never seen this. It is the UK I remember even though I didn’t go to public school. It’s the first time I’ve seen Kenneth Cranham that young. An expat watching in Florida
I'm from Hereford I met him outside a shop called Meritts. He was buying a morning Newspaper. I was waiting for School bus, he signed an autograph to everyone there.
A “sponsored delusion “?! Love it! Why’re you wasting time on YT?! With boy sopranos no less?! And text written by someone who never sang in a choir or studied music either. And can we decide whether we’re using a real Brit accent? Or some other bastardized accent?
@@ImogenC-rt3fmHello, Do you know how I can find boy soprano, (yes he is English). I was a soprano. Ànyway, I had a C.D. with an incredibly gifted, young boy NAMED, ANTHONY WAY. I lost the C.D. was around 1994?? I would love to be able to listen to him again. Thank you 🌺
@@jasanders5877 Adam Smith advises that capitalism is extortion. Hannah Arendt determined that using others for pupose is evil, such as attracting customers for profit. Americans are self-serving, criminal, and violent. Their innocence would consist in ignoring others and illiteracy.
I'm 21 minutes in. Seems good. I don't know any of the actor's 😮. Does, anyone know if it's meant to be set in the mid 1980's. UPLOADER, would be really helpful to have some information on the series please 🙏
Yes. I live in Hereford and in the early 80s worked for a medium sized engineering company building mechanical handling equipment i.e. conveyors. it was the time when, and I don't think this is particularly controversial, the policies of the Thatcher Government were hitting this sector hard. The company went bankrupt around this time as our customers were either not investing in new machinery or going bust themselves. The school, Hereford Cathedral School ( I know this is fiction but..), is now co-educational. After my company went bust I changed direction and for about 9 years worked in an office less than 100 yards from the location where the boy says he is going to park his bike.
I copied this summary for you: Elizabeth Fellowes seems well suited to life in a small cathedral town. Her husband, Mark, teaches at the cathedral school where her son, Tim, is a chorister. Unknown to the family, boardroom battles are taking place elsewhere. These are to have a dramatic effect on their future lives together.
@@richardwebb5317yes squash was extremely tiring ,I was at a tennis club in Bournemouth a local school was playing squash and in the changing room was 30 identical green school uniforms me and my tennis partner mixed ALL the uniforms shoes bags personal items up the boys must of laughed coming of the squash courts knackered and finding all their possessions in chaos...😢😮😅
@@barbarakelly1916 I don't think this is intended to be a coherent story. It was written by an unscrupulous minor attracted person for like minded individuals. It was even advertised as being about the "dangerous world of adult-child relationships". Taken at face value that is not the case. It is about a divorced father who misses his ex-wife and son and does unscrupulous things to gain access to his son. But why would a divorced father do such desparate things when according to the script "he is welcome at any time"? Once you realise that Eric actually represents a minor attracted person and that the script has been changed to make Eric Tim's father it makes more sense. This series was only shown once and not again because the powers that be found out what it is really about.
