WINTER 1995

Issue No 8

Contents

• Fish Soup (News)
• Sitting on a Slice of the Good |Earth
• Good Earth The Beginning
• The Good Earth Visit
• Enter the Beeb
• Back to the Good Earth (the Strangest Gig)
• 1995 An Earth Odyssey
• Workhouse , Tuesday 30th November
• The End Result

Issue 8 - A Good Earth Special

Platform End 8 is our first special I uppose devoted almost completely to the album 'The Good Earth', released some 21 years ago when it wasn't politically correct to be GREEN.

The End Result (by Andy Taylor)

On Sunday 15 November, 1995 the BBC's Country File broadcast the results of all our efforts. I hope most of you managed to keep an eye open for it having been tipped off in the last Platform End. All credit to Mick Murphy and his superb crew for the 'End Result' he had managed to edit together between seven and eight minutes of superb television featuring all of us who had ventured into the depths of darkest Wales, some great comedy from Roy Heath proving just what you can do on a square foot of land without losing the more serious side of the story. There were interviews with Mick and myself and other Platform Enders before the scene switched to the Workshouse Studio introduced to us by our presenter Jilly Parton before fading into Manfred and Mick playing (miming) to the end of 'Pleasure and Pain'. There was an interview with Manfred and even a trip to HMV record buyers about the concept. Throughout all of this The Good Earth was featured either through the clever use of archice material from The Old Grey Whistle Test or very more recent footage of an ever so sligtly older Mick Rogers strutting his stuff on the hillside. Incidentally, during the course of all this I discovered that the BBC still have 'Joy Bringer', 'Our Friend George', 'Captain Bobby Stout' as well as 'The Good Earth' all from the Old Grey Whistle Test in their archives as well as Top of the Pops performance of 'Joy Bringer'. Whether we will ever get to see these is another matter. In closing I can do no more than thank Mick Murphy and the team, especially Roy who sniffed the idea out, for a great finish to a very enjoyable few weeks.

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