Any plans for this truly inspirational musical to tour again? Saw original in London in 2003 and again touring in Glasgow in 2008. Have told so many friends about it. Please bring it back. The younger generation can learn so much from it. Still don't know why it did not have the mass appeal of WWRU or mama MIA. It's streaks ahead of both. Tour again soon please!:)

Whilst cleaning out a cupboard I rediscovered my copy of Harmless Flirting. Would it be as good as I seemed to remember. Even better and what's more despite not having played it for three years - I could still remember all the words.  A belated thankyou for Harmless Flirting.

Well I have now been trying to watch Border Café again for almost 11 years WOW Tim what an accomplishment so many people so moved by a TV show as to continue to plead for the release of the DVD’s I guess it foolish of me to think that by my adding my request to the list it will actually happen but I have to at least say GO ON GO ON GO ON… You know we want you to!!!! Like so many of the other good folk on this guestbook I would pay pretty well anything to get a copy of this series, I have the sound track but it is just not enough what can we do to get this released? who should we ask? And if not at least tell us WHY not???  God Bless you all Thank you for listening and one last time PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sadly the only way something like BORDER CAFE will ever appear on DVD is if a
company comes to us wanting to release it...and I'm still waiting for that call. I have to say it's gratifying to hear that some people watched it, though. TIM FIRTH

Hi Tim. My daughter is absolutely besotted with your musical Our House and watches it every day, more than once. I was wondering whether there are any plans for it returning to the stage at any time. I'm sure there would be lots of interest. Here's hoping!

Like so many others I should love to see Border Cafe on DVD, Preston Front is a favourite and I have watched it loads of times. But please can we have a DVD of Border Cafe.

Please please please can someone, somehow get me a copy of Border Cafe, it was my favourite programme and at the time was highly popular with my mates & I. I understand it has never been released on DVD and can't understand why, especially with the mountains of drivel I and others have had to endure on tv in the last decade or so.So if anyone can help me I would be eternally grateful.

Hi.   Please put me on the list of people who would love a Border Cafe DD. I emailed the BBC when I was 15 for a copy of he show and I'm still hoping one day it will happen. It was my favourite program 10 years ago and it's repeat on UK Drama reminded me that it still is. A DVD release would be fantastic. Thank You.

Calendar Girls was premiered in Sofia - Bulgaria on 8th of April! It's a marvellous play!

Dear Tim. Just to let you know that Our House went very well indeed and It does work with shorter ending than Cambridge Theatre version, still gives that emotional feeling between Dad and Joe. Louis x..

Please, please, please could we have a DVD of Border Cafe after so many years of waiting. Even Tutti Fruitti eventually got released..

Hi Tim. I write from Spain and this is my little story. I was 12, when I met Madness and fell in love of them forever. I didn't mind anything else. I walked, studied and slept with them in my ears- At 18, I had a serious traffic accident in which my mother died and I lost 85% of audition (hearing) due to head injury. 3 years ago, I knew about the musical that you created and I decided not to see it, ...it was very hard for me. But a few months ago, my friends gave me for birthday and I had to do it. I had no words. "Incredibly amazing" doesn't express even half of what I felt. I could not understand the words, ...barely hear them, but the scenes that you invented for every song, were so similar to what I had imagined so many times while I was listening, that i didn´t need it. This is only to express my gratefull feel for make a new way to enjoy "Madness", ...the only way for me. Thanks a Million. P.D.: I bought also the "Song Book" from the musical, hoping to fully understand what they were saying, but in it, are only the songs. Is there any way to get subtitles or script? Thanks a lot.

Thanks Luis - I don't think there's a Spanish translation sadly but the script is published in boring old English. I'll see what I can do. Amazing story.

Hi Tim, You may remember in the dark and distant past I lit Love Songs for Shopkeepers for you and Alan at the SJT. Now I find myself running a theatre in New Zealand(!) and I'm looking for something to direct. It's always been a favourite of mine, was it ever published? If not maybe you have an old script knocking about? I remember you sitting in the control room banging out the song on a piano for us to record (I wish I'd kept a copy). Still find myself humming those tunes. Hope you're well and busy. All the best,)

Has it really been 10 years since Border Cafe? I would like to add my humble cry for its release on DVD. Although I'm a dyed in the wool Preston Front fan I remember Border Cafe with much fondness. In truth I guess I'm just a Tim Firth fan as I love Flint Street Nativety and the rest of his work. I would however like to see another Preston Front series before all the locations disappear. The Roman Holiday Restaurant is really delapidated these days, but the Greasy Spoon Cafe seems not to have changed too much. I'd love to see if Alley & Carl ever got together and it would be great if young Kirsty returned from America as a young woman looking for her father. Do Eric and Dawn have any children yet? Has Lloydy made his millions yet? Has poor Spock finally found true love and does Diesel own a large car dealership yet? If not a TV series how about a novel (the production costs are a lot less!!!)

Hello Tim Firth Website, What an amazing writer! Please, please, please, please release Border Cafe on DVD. I really need to see it again after 10 years, PLEASE

Dear Tim.  Great website. This is just a quick note to let you know that Grove Park Theatre in Wrexham are staging The Flint Street Nativity from October 28th to November 6th 2010. The cast and crew have had a fantastic time putting together the show - rehearsals have never been such fun! If you have the chance to catch the show during its run, please let me know, we'll make you extremely welcome. Regards and best wishes for the future

Dear Mr. Firth,  I have been a fan of your writing for quite a while, and have found Calendar Girls to be funny, as well as an inspiration to “women of a certain age”. I am the Executive Director of the Robertson County Senior Center.  We are struggling with a lack of funds, and want to do something to gain some much needed resources.  There are some programs that are sorely needed, and our building is in need of renovation, too. We would like to stage a production of Calendar Girls.  We truly do not know what venue we will use, but I am sure we will come up on something suitable.  I have a lovely collection of women here, some of whom come from theatrical backgrounds.  I know it might be quite ambitious, but what a “shot in the arm” this would be! Please advise the procedure for obtaining the rights to such a fabulous production.  I thank you in advance for any help you might be able to give me. Best regards.  

The amateur rights won't be available for a good while as the show continues to tour both the UK and other countries. However when the rights do become available this website will be the first to know and we will make a big splash! HOT OFF THE PRESS: See News Page...

Hello, Tim. Both my friend (Germany) and me (Finland/Scotland) have been big fans of your most beautiful song "A Book of Stories" for many yrs now. I have been trying to locate the track on both Youtube and Spotify, but it does not show up there, which is quite disappointing.  I would like to know, if there is an easier way to get hold of your CD?. 

Fortunately we were able to respond to Nikki's request and get a copy of Tim’s CD to her.  Copies are still available. ORDER HERE

Dear Tim, I really like the way some of the scenes in Our House has been restructured especially with Kath and Dad dancing at the being of Act One then just flows into ‘Our House’.  I would like to ask with regards to ending of West End / DVD I really thought that the whole Act Two ending with Joe and Dad talking to each other was very touching and emotional to watch then following on to ‘House of Fun’ then first scene of Act one reprise but without breaking in to pressman developments.   Why has this slightly changed in the new script from Josef Weinberg?  I hope you don’t mind me asking this would help me a lot as I have a production I am involved in next year.   I look forward to hearing from you. 

Louis - I wanted to keep the beat of contact between Joe and Dad, but then to move more quickly on to the end of the piece. The new version maintains a crucial momentum towards the end of the story, whilst hopefully not sacrificing any emotional impact. Have fun with the house. Hope it goes well. Let us know.

Dear Tim. I am very involved in a local theatre company in Bermuda, I’m originally from the UK – a Lancashire lass no less. We desperately want to put on the Calendar Girls but can’t get the rights, do you know if they will ever be released or would you give us permission to show it? We did something similar a few years ago with Black Adder and were asked to donate what we usually pay in rights to the Red Nose Day Charity. Do you know of any way we could do your play…..you can always come to Bermuda to watch it….. Many Thanks

So, once upon a time, there was a hint that Tim was considering revisiting Roker Bridge in later years to see what had become of Hodge, Eric and the others. Was that just a tease or should we be holding out hope for something in the future? Further down the Guestbook page it seemed that Sgt. Polson was looking to re-enlist... ;-) 

Hi, I was wondering if there was anywhere I could purchase the stage shows of Calendar Girls on DVD or Online anywhere?  I'm unable to get to a theatre but would still love to see the plays, thank you. 

There aren't any plans to release on DVD - stage shows never fare well on film I think - but there are many more tour dates planned for next year. Maybe the show will come nearer to you. This website will be the first to publish tour dates for 2011.

Thank you so much for uploading Money for Nothing.  I just watched it and I thought it was great.  Christien Anholt did a fantastic job.  Everyone was great. Thanks again!

Tim thank you so much for putting the whole of Money for Nothing on your site.  It’s absolutely brilliant!!!! Christien Anholt is superb, as are all the other actors and actresses in the film.  I do wish it could be released on DVD but this is certainly the next best thing!  Thank you again.

Dear Tim, I'm designing and compiling the programme for Studio 7's production of Our House in Kingston next month and wanted to ask if I could get permission to use the synopsis that's on your website. I will of course include any necessary credits. Many thanks

Hi Tim.  Have you any idea when the amateur rights to Calendar Girls might become available?  I am a Trustee of a struggling theatre in Monmouth South Wales and we are hoping to mount a production to realise much needed funds to keep the theatre alive. Thanks

The amateur rights won't be available for a good while yet I'm afraid but this website will be the first to know.

Hi Tim. Any more news on Money For Nothing coming out on DVD?  I know a few people who are keeping their fingers crossed that it will be released.  It would be a brilliant Christmas present!! Thanks for all the great work you do!

Dear Tim, Our local drama group, Guilden Sutton Players, are staging the first ever amateur production of The Flint Street Nativity from 18th to 21st November 2009. We are so excited to be putting on the amateur premiere and wondered whether you may be interested in joining us, given that we are very close by!  Please let us know whether you’d be able to join us (either incognito or with fanfares!)

Dear Tim, Tonight me and my girlfriend watched Cruise of the Gods, followed by The Flint St Nativity, and it was a lovely evening in, so we thought we'd say thanks. Have a lovely day, please write more, Rob and Rebecca

Dear Mr. Firth, More then 10 years ago i saw some series of Screen One here in Holland. I know it has been requested before but since i cannot see when the last question was posted i hope you can tell me if the Screen One series have been available on dvd or vhs? hope to hear from you soon. Thanx

Dear Mr Firth. Is it not time for another music CD - perhaps called Heavy Petting. Regards

Hi. Can you please let me know IF/WHEN Calendar Girls will be released for amateur productions? Theatre 81 seater in Colchester (Headgate Theatre). Many thanks

Mr. Firth, A colleague of mine remembers Money for Nothing as one of the best TV shows he's ever seen.  We'd love to find a copy of it on DVD, but it seems next to impossible, despite having won the Best TV Film award.  Is there any way you know of to buy a copy?  Even a dup of a personal tape would be more than appreciated. Thanks so much. 

I am such a huge fan of the musical Our House and I was extremely disappointed that the tour ended last October. This must be one of the best staged, cleverly executed musicals of all time ( and I have seen over 60).The cast was exceptional.  Will this musical be touring again? [Being completely cheeky I would love to see Chris Carswell and the girl from Footloose reprise their roles. But I think Shane Ritchie and Jessie Wallace would be brilliant as the Mum and Dad].  Regards.

I would like to see Money For Nothing too.  Tim are you going to release it on DVD????  Christien Anholt who starred in that is a great actor.  He went on to star in Relic Hunter and quite a few films which we can get on DVD but I really want to get MONEY FOR NOTHING.

Hi. I just want to say that I love your films.  I thoroughly enjoy them and am dying to see more. I would love to see Money for Nothing get released on DVD, especially since it won awards. I missed out on seeing the film when it originally aired, and would love to see it on DVD.  I hope this happens one day. Thanks again for all your wonderful work.

Is there any chance whatsoever that MONEY FOR NOTHING starring the brilliant Christien Anholt will be released on DVD.  I know so many people who would love to see it.

Brill to see these bits of films, I’ve already been and bought dvd of Cruise of the gods. Wicked! I hadn’t realised James Corden was in it! Lol. Don’t you just luv Rob Brydon.

David MacCreedy

Dan Piponi

Many many years ago I saw a small student production of a play in Cambridge. I loved the play but for many years I knew nothing more about it. I was amazed when I found out the play's author and director had gone on to world famous theatre, TV and movie careers. The play was Hexen. Is the script available anywhere? By coincidence I've also ended up doing visual effects work on both
Tim Firth and Sam Mendes movies.

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please,  release all 39 eps on DVD or in a DVD boxset Pleasssseeeeeee!

We all miss RATR sooooooo much. Last news of  DVD releases was 5 (yes FIVE) years ago.. sniff sniff.

PS Beg beg beg beg beg beg. Grovel grovel. (willing to part with serious cash to get it) (Even if you just release your own copies sold thru website, GO ON, You know you want to...)

Hi. I'm looking for a copy of the story of Christmas published by w h smith. We have a copy that we listen to and read every year, but the tape is getting old, and needs replacing. Can you help. Thanks.

Is there any reason why Border Cafe hasn't come out on DVD yet?  I check every so often to see if it has. Thanks.