Saturday, June 20, 2026

Juno and the Hancock

One of the playlets in The Hancock episode The Drama Festival is John Eastbourne's Look Back in Hunger, where Bill Kerr delivers a monologue about tea with the splendidly delivered mocking line '"Have a cup of tea, Jim."'

That's very Osborne, but the rest of the speech ('Tea, tea? Is that your answer to it all') is much more Sean O'Casey. 'Tay, tay, tay! You're always thinking of tay. If a man was dying, you'd try to make him swallow a cup of tay.'

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