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Bread. Image shows from L to R: Joey Boswell (Graham Bickley), Aveline Boswell (Melanie Hill), Nellie Boswell (Jean Boht), Grandad (Kenneth Waller), Shifty (Bryan Murray), Adrian Boswell (Jonathon Morris), Billy Boswell (Nick Conway), Freddie Boswell (Ronald Forfar). Copyright: BBC
Bread

Bread

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1986 - 1991
  • 74 episodes (7 series)

Liverpudlian Boswell family are experts at exploiting the system to get by in life, with plenty of dodgy deals and government handouts to help. Stars Jean Boht, Peter Howitt, Ronald Forfar, Jonathon Morris, Victor McGuire and more.

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Mrs Boswell's Slice Of Bread

Mrs Boswell's Slice Of Bread
By Carla Lane and William Corlett

This is the book you've been waiting for. Where else can you discover all the intimate details of our family if it isn't from me? I can give you the full picture of a Liverpool family's trials and tribulations brought on by unemployment, red tape and the tart who seduced my husband and rendered my children fatherless. Well, here it is, written by the only person who knows the whole story: me, Nellie Boswell.

Read all about Joey's skirmishes with Martina at the DHSS; about Aveline's hopes and aspirations as a model and vicar's wife. Here is the truth about Grandad's stomach; Billy's excessive love life; Adrian's lack of one; Jack's fiascos; the doubtful doings of Shifty and the hopes and fears of my friends Celia Higgins and Linda McCartney. There's nothing hidden. Not even my own shortcomings: fighting in the street - and with Lilo Lil of all people, a renowned, deformed tart, the one Freddie, my own husband, left me for.

As my grandmother used to say: 'If you can't afford a side of beef you'll just have to make do with BREAD. But if you must eat bread - make sure it's a fresh loaf.' Well, it doesn't come any fresher than this. Here it is, straight out of the oven, Mrs Boswell's Slice Of Bread. May the good Lord bless and keep you safe.

First published: Thursday 12th October 1989

  • Publisher: BBC Books
  • Pages: 160
  • Catalogue: 9780563208297

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