The Good Companions The Good Companions The Good Companions is a novel by the English author J. B. Priestley. Written in 1929 (in Deal, Kent), it focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party in England between World War I and World War II. It is arguably Priestley's most famous novel, and the work which established him as a national figure. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was adapted twice into film. The novel is written in picaresque style, and opens with the middle aged, discontented Jess Oakroyd in the fictional Yorkshire town of Bruddersford. He opts to
An Inspector Calls Adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Aisling Walsh for Drama Republic, it stars David Thewlis as Inspector Goole, Chloe Pirrie as Sheila Birling, Ken Stott as Arthur Birling, Kyle Soller as Gerald Croft, Miranda Richardson as Sybil Birling and Finn Cole as Eric Birling. It was also adapted as a Hong Kong-made black comedy(Chinese title: 浮華宴)in 2015, with slapstick elements added. The first radio production was broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 27 March 1950 in the "Contemporary European Theatre" series. This was followed by a BBC Light Programme production on 10 June 1953. Adapted by Cynthia Pughe