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RSS FeedsDo we need an Only Fools and Horses musical? Of course we do, you plonker!
(The Guardian Culture News)

 
 

18 february 2019 11:24:20

 
Do we need an Only Fools and Horses musical? Of course we do, you plonker!
(The Guardian Culture News)
 


It was the cushty comedy that perfectly captured 80s Britain. As Only Fools and Horses hits the stage, we celebrate the TV classic that needed a new scale to measure audience laughterBack in 1991, Peckham´s leading entrepreneur Boycie paid a visit to one of Peckham´s not so leading entrepreneurs in Nelson Mandela House, SE15. He wasn´t happy to be in Derek `Del Boy` Trotter´s flat, and not just because of the horrible carpet, tacky furniture and pretentious drinks bar. `I´d like to get away as quick as possible,` he said. `I´ve left my Mercedes parked downstairs and you know what they´re like on this estate. They´d have the wheels off a Jumbo if it flew too low.`That might have been what Peckham was like in the early 90s, but not today. Now it´s all pop-up this, artisanal that, symphony concerts in the multi-storey car park, and no change from a million quid if you seek to live in a three-bed terrace off Rye Lane. Like Boycie, Peckham has gone up in the world. Continue reading...


 
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