Written by Tim Firth

Directed by Marcus Mortimer

Produced by Peter Elias Jones (Antena Productions)

& Paul Spencer (Yorkshire Television)

The eight-year-old pupils of Flint Street Primary School, all played by adults, perform the nativity play for their parents. The story is based on real events, collected over a period of ten years from members of Tim Firth's family and friends who were teachers.

Gabriel - Dervla Kirwan Mary - Josie Lawrence Shepherd - Jane Horrocks Shepherd - Hywel Simons Inn Keeper - John Thomson Narrator - Stephen Tompkinson Herod - Frank Skinner Wise Man - Julia Sawalha Wise Man - Neil Morrissey Wise Man - Tony Marshall Ass - Mark Addy Joseph - Jason Hughes Star of Bethlehem - Ralph Little Mrs Humphries - Lyn Hunter

Josie and her female co-stars wore swimsuits three sizes too small to flatten their adult bits!

AVAILABLE NOW ON DVD

It seems that your power of persuasion (you the fans) have convinced Yorkshire TV to allow the release of this classic comedy drama on DVD.

 

Tim Firth's hilarious and poignant seasonal one-off has a cast-list that reads like a Who's Who of British comedy and was filmed on an oversize set to make the actors' characters all the more believable.

 

 

 

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CAT: IMC586D

Other scripts, CDs and DVDs of Tim Firth's work are available.