A 50-minute Yorkshire fever dream where everyone's drunk on bus ownership.
In Yorkshire during the twenties, it seems that everyone who holds a driver's licence wants to run his own private bus company, and young Jim Stone is no exception.
Acting
Sebastian Abineri's Jim is all nervous energy and desperate schemes.
Production
Gloriously specific 1920s Yorkshire buses as characters themselves.
Director
Tim King
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of BBC's 'Play for Today' strand, famous for launching now-legendary British talent.
The 1920s bus wars were genuinely brutal—companies literally sabotaged rivals' vehicles. Jim's chaos has historical teeth.
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