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The Riff Raff Element

British TV series or programme

The Riff Raff Element is a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock for BBC One.[1][2] The series was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 1994.[3]

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Plot

The basic plot was "the Tundishes, down-at-heel country aristocrats, are compelled to live cheek-by-jowl with the vulgar Belchers from Salford"[4] so simultaneously drawing on the English north-south divide and class divide.

Cast

The Belchers

The Tundishes

Others

References

  1. [1]
    The Riff Raff Element, BBC Genome Project, 2 April 1993, retrieved 9 January 2020
  2. [2]
    The Riff Raff Element, Nostalgia Central (UK), 27 September 2014, retrieved 9 January 2020
  3. [3]
    "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  4. [4]
    Debbie Horsfield article in The Independent


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