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Though there were two BBC TV versions of Love on the Dole in the sixties, we do not have recordings of them. However, ITV kept a tape of their wonderful 1967 production. This article is about that adaptation and how this thirties story was seen by the press in the much more affluent nineteen-sixties. Love… Continue reading New Article: Love on the Dole in a Time of Full Employment: the Granada/ATV TV Adaptation (1967)

The play adaptation (co-written with Ronald Gow) increased Greenwood's fame and greatly increased the audience he reached. This has long been a gap in my blog, which I've now filled. Fame: Love on the Dole (the Play, 1934, co-written with Ronald Gow) Best, Chris.

I have located two more short stories by Greenwood - one from 1940, one from 1946. The first, 'Rose Red, Rose White' is unique among his fiction in having an agricultural setting (and is about Lancashire/Yorkshire rivalries and the dangers of stereotyping). The second, 'Landmark' is one of several stories set in his fictional Cornish… Continue reading Two More Walter Greenwood Short Stories Found

I always hoped I'd find a Walter Greenwood cigarette card- but alas there never was one. However, I did eventually find the Love on the Dole cigarette card  in a Four Square series. Here it is.   Best Chris

I have recently bought this fragile Love on the Dole artefact, which tells us quite a lot about the success of the film version in Australia after 1942, partly a result of its being completely banned by the Australian film censorship system for six days in late September 1942. Love on the Dole: an Australian… Continue reading New Article: Love on the Dole – an Australian Glass-slide Cinema Advert, circa 1942