Since I last wrote a blog we’ve had Halloween, a Climate Change Conference, Bonfire Night and the return of Worzel Gummidge to the BBC. All this and we’re only half way through November!
Mackenzie Crook directs this latest incarnation of Worzel and he also takes a decent stab at playing the lovable scarecrow but I don’t think anyone can replace the original and delightful Jon Pertwee, of blessed memory.
The whole of the Village Bonfire Night Committee, all six characters, are played by the fantastic Toby Jones who seems to love a challenge.
The first episode aired in time for Bonfire Night and featured Paul Kaye as Worzel’s distant cousin Guy Forks. This guy disappears from his perch on top of the village bonfire and the hapless Worzel is chosen to take his place. The right guy is eventually found in the cellar of the village pub just in the nick of time to stop him from carry out his plan of blowing the place up. He’s put back on the bonfire and Worzel is safe. Three cheers!
I’m very glad that they called the event Bonfire Night throughout the production. It seems that it has also become known as Guy Fawkes Day.
There can’t be many countries in the world with a national celebration named after an insurgent terrorist but I bet you’re going to tell me that there are.
Is this one because we would all secretly like to blow up Parliament, at least in theory, now and again, from time to time?
