Bradford-based poet Glyn Watkins is celebrating JB Priestley’s birthday with a pie and a pint.
His show, called JB Priestley, Pie And Proud Of Bradford features readings from Priestley favourites such as When We Are Married, as well as stories about his life in Bradford.
The inspiration for his show came from one of Priestley’s wartime broadcasts.
“One of the most famous broadcasts was about Robert's, a Bradford pie and peas shop, famous for having an enormous pie in the window that steamed every hour the shop was open,” says Glyn. “Priestley called it ‘…a perpetual volcano of a meat and potato pie’.
“He’d been told the shop had been destroyed in an air raid in September 1940. He came home to see for himself, intending to write an elegy to the lost pie, but to his delight he found it had survived to steam again. He wrote: 'Every puff and jet of steam defied Hitler, Goering and the whole gang of them. It was glorious.'”
The show is at the Gumption Centre, Bradford, tonight at 7.30pm. For tickets ring (01274) 241111 or pay on the door. Pie and peas will be available.
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